Boris Muñoz
Venezuelan American journalist, editor of Boom, an independent digital journalism initiative to fight misinformation.
Drug War Narratives and the Violence of National Security Paradigms: Oswaldo Zavala, Rachel Nolan, Boris Muñoz, and Andrew Ryan
Date and Time
March 28, 2026
10:00AM - 12:00PM EDT
Location
CGIS South, Room S216
Join us for a conversation with four leading journalists and academics covering Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, and the United States, as they examine violence, security, and the cultural and state narratives that sustain and drive them.
The schedule and full program are available below.
Saturday, March 28, 2026 / DRCLAS Resource Room (CGIS)
10:00 – 11.30 | Drug War Narratives and the Violence of National Security Paradigm: Oswaldo Zavala, Rachel Nolan, Boris Muñoz, and Andrew Ryan
11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee
Hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Cultural Agents Initiative, with support from the Mahindra Center for Humanities program, Psychedelics in Society and Culture, and from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Speakers
Andrew Ryan
Boston Globe journalist; member of the investigative team at Spotlight and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Rachel Nolan
Assistant Professor of International History, Boston University. Her first book, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions from Guatemala (Harvard University Press, 2024) was a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
Oswaldo Zavala
Journalist and Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture, CUNY. Author of Cartels Do Not Exist. Drug Trafficking and Culture in Mexico (Barcelona: Malpaso, 2018).
