Safety and drug trafficking in the Americas is the main theme of an investigative journalism seminar, scheduled for November 14 and 15 in Mexico City. Deadline: November 7.

Centro Latinoamericano de Periodismo (CELAP) is organizing this seminar-workshop that will examine the following topics: origins of drug trafficking in Latin America; the Colombian case; Pablo Escobar and the big bosses of the 1980s; the 1990s: drug trafficking is transformed; the press: the word under fire; 21st century: the new drug trafficking era; and the current situation of drug trafficking in Latin America.

Registration costs US$1,000, which includes lodging, and US$500, not including lodging.

For more information, contact eventos@celap.net or visit (in Spanish) http://www.celap.net/proximoseventos2.htm.