In a recent op-ed, Eduardo Guerrero proposes creating a North American Security Treaty to respond to the region's security challenges, including transnational crime and the trafficking of drugs, people, and illegal arms. Guerrero’s proposed treaty aims to address these issues by deepening security policy collaboration between the United States, Canada, and Mexico; increasing investment in the Mexican police force; and reducing the impact of crime on citizens, electoral systems, and critical infrastructure across the continent. What are the main obstacles and opportunities of the proposed plan? What challenges lie ahead in protecting democracy and prosperity across North America? The Georgetown Americas Institute is pleased to host Eduardo Guerrero Gutiérrez, director of Lantia Consultores, to discuss transnational security issues in Canada, Mexico, and the United States and the need for a North American Security Treaty. The online conversation will be moderated by Alejandro Werner, founding director of the Georgetown Americas Institute, and Nora Lustig, GAI resident fellow.
This event will take place in Spanish with English interpretation.
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Eduardo Guerrero is the founding partner of Lantia Consultores, where he focuses on security policy and risk and works in the development of security diagnoses and policies to reduce violence and the incidence of crime. Before that he served as a director within the National Electoral Institute (INE) of Mexico and held positions in Mexico’s Federal Institute for Access to Information and Secretariat of Social Development. Guerrero regularly collaborates in Nexos and ForoTV, and his research has been published by The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and El País, among other international media. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in political science from the University of Delaware, and a B.A. in public administration from El Colegio de México.
Alejandro Werner is the founding director of the Georgetown Americas Institute and a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute. He recently completed almost nine years as director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that appointment, he was undersecretary of finance and public credit in Mexico’s Finance Ministry and held several positions in that ministry and the Central Bank. He also taught at leading universities in Mexico, Spain, and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).