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Introductory Speaker: James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Speakers: David Holiday, Program Officer, Latin America Program, Open Society Institute
William F. Wechsler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats, U.S. Department of Defense
Lee S. Wolosky, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP; Former Director, Transnational Threats, National Security Council
Presider: Stanley S. Arkin, Chairman, The Arkin Group, LLC
November 18, 2009
This session was part of the CFR symposium, Organized Crime in the Western Hemisphere: An Overlooked Threat?, undertaken in collaboration with the Latin American Program and Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and made possible by the generous support of the Hauser Foundation, Tinker Foundation, and a grant from the Robina Foundation for CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance program.
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