Tuesday, April 1
4:30–6:30 p.m.
Filene Auditorium and live stream

The implementation of restrictive U.S. immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border has increasingly depended on the cooperation of Mexico’s ruling Morena Party. An esteemed panel of experts offers an exploration of the Morena Party’s past and the future of the U.S.-Mexico relationship. With President Donald Trump’s greater scrutiny of the alleged traffic of narcotics across the U.S.-Mexico border, how will Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s new president, manage the influence of cartels and defend Mexican sovereignty?

Panelists Alex Aviña (Arizona State University), Benjamin Smith (University of Warwick), Ariel Rodriguez Kuri (Colegio de México) and Adela Cedillo (University of Houston) will publish a dossier with Nexos that discusses how Morena came to power, why it maintains popular support in Mexico, and how it has dealt with challenges created by its neighbor to the north. The dossier constitutes one of the first scholarly assessments of Mexico’s ruling party. This event promises to provide the Dartmouth community a unique opportunity to see U.S.-Mexico relations from the Mexican perspective, and to assess the future of immigration policy under the second Trump presidency and the new Sheinbaum administration.