The dominant electoral narrative in the US is that the southern border is a danger zone because of the drugs and violence in Mexico and Central America.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18

PROGRAM #10348 12:00 PM PT

“Exit Wounds.” The dominant electoral narrative in the US is that the southern border is a danger zone because of the drugs and violence in Mexico and Central America. A social researcher countered that the violence we fear is caused by policies, actions and guns exported from the US and set out to follow the trail of US weapons sent to the south. In her just released book, “Exit Wounds,” she explains the extent of the damage those “iron rivers” are causing to Mexican society.

Guest: Ieva Jusionyte, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Security, Brown University; Author of the Book “Exit Wounds: How America’s Weapons Fuel Violence on the Other Side of the Border”; and Member of the Global Action Advisory Committee on Gun Violence and the Research Network to Prevent Gun Violence in the Americas, Boston, MA.

Photo: UC Press

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