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September 15, 2016
Kidnapping near Nuevo Laredo linked to cartels
Presumed cartel gunmen kidnapped 15 people from a bus near the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, the San Antonio Express-News reports.
Gary Hale, nonresident fellow in drug policy and Mexico studies, said the region has seen an uptick in violence as cartels ward off infiltration from rival organizations into their territory.
“Anybody who’s transiting, if they don’t look like normal passengers on the bus … they take them off, they interrogate them and they kill them, and you never see them again,” Hale said.
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September 15, 2016
Blue Marble Health
Peter Hotez, fellow in disease and poverty and a U.S. Science Envoy, will be at the Brazos Bookstore signing copies of his book, "Blue Marble Health," on October 18 at 7 p.m.
In his book, Hotez describes a new global paradigm — poor people living in wealthy countries account for most of the world’s poverty-related illness — and issues an urgent call to decision-makers to meaningfully address these neglected diseases.
September 14, 2016
Is the GOP's Senate majority safe?
Political science fellow Mark Jones comments on whether Democrats could retake the Senate — and what it could mean for the oil industry. RigZone: http://bit.ly/2cVUVsU
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CES Summer 2016
The CES issues its quarterly update on the center's publications, conferences and other activities. Click here for the summer 2016 recap.
September 13, 2016
U.S. elections face 'credible cyberthreats'
Baker Institute faculty scholar Dan Wallach warned that American election systems face “credible cyberthreats” during testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in Washington, D.C. “It’s far too late to change the technologies upon which we will cast our votes,” Wallach said. “My best advice is that we need contingency planning.”
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