The Metropolitan University of Toronto will present its last event of the 2023 semester, belonging to the International Issues Discussion (IID) series: Mexico: rights, crimes, abuses, politics and the United States.

During the event, Luis Horace Najeraa well-known journalist and crime analyst from Mexico who has lived in exile in Canada since 2008, will appear to discuss the subject.

Nájera was a reporter for Grupo Reforma in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, where he covered organized crime on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

Yet more than 14 years ago, he and his family arrived in Canada seeking asylum after fleeing Mexico after multiple assaults, threats, and after learning that his name was on a list of journalists sentenced to death for organized crime.

Nájera was a writer-in-residence for PEN Canada-George Brown in Toronto and the recipient of the 2010 CJFE International Press Freedom Award and one of the 2011 Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammett Awards.

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He is a Fellow of Massey College and a former Fellow of the Citizen Lab/Canada Center for Global Security Studies.

Additionally, he holds a Masters in Global Affairs from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Disaster and Emergency Management from York University.

He is co-author of the book “The Wolfpack: The millennial gangsters who bring chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld”, and was recognized as one of the ten most influential Hispanic-Canadians of 2022.

The conference at Toronto Metropolitan University will take place on Wednesday, April 12 between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. at ENG 103 (the Vari Engineering Building, 245 Church Street, Toronto).

Participation is free and for the general public.

IID is a student-run, non-partisan forum designed to engage all members of the TMU community in major events and issues in contemporary world affairs through reasoned, objective, and scholarly discourse.

If you want more information about the IID, consult your website or contact IID Student Leaders at iidseries@gmail.com.

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