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Tony Payan

Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Mexico Center at Rice University’s Baker Institute

Tony Payan is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Mexico Center at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Rice and a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Payan’s research focuses primarily on border studies, particularly the U.S.-Mexico border. His work includes studies of border governance, border flows and immigration, as well as border security and organized crime.

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Law and Order

Arrest of Mexican kingpin "El Chapo" won't slow Texas drug trade

By Gary Hale, Tony Payan and Nathan Jones, Jan. 29, 2016

Until Mexico develops a new law enforcement model to combat the drug cartels, the arrest of drug kingpins such as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán will make little to no difference to drug trafficking in Texas and across the United States.