Technology can be harnessed to fight drug cartels in Mexico
Eric Schmidt is the executive chairman of Google and a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Jared Cohen is director of Google Ideas and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
They are writing a book about the digital future and this week convened the Google Ideas summit “Illicit Networks: Forces in Opposition.”
Jared Cohen is director of Google Ideas and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
They are writing a book about the digital future and this week convened the Google Ideas summit “Illicit Networks: Forces in Opposition.”
The scene was almost surreal: We got off the plane and were met on the tarmac by a convoy of armored cars and open-back trucks swarming with police. The officers were “policía federal.” Like the ones you hear about, they carried machine guns and wore masks to hide their identities. They hung off the backs of their trucks, alert, constantly swiveling as they surveyed the landscape.
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