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In April, 2010 Ricardo Ainslie was named a Guggenheim Memorial Fellow for 2010-2011 for his work about Juarez as the epicenter of Mexico’s war against the drug cartels.

From August 15 to September 15 Ricardo Ainslie was selected to be a Resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, in Italy, to work on his book, The Savior of Juaréz: México at the Time of the Great Drug War.

Ricardo Ainslie was in Mexico City between November 14 and November 17, 2010 where he interviewed the head of the Secretaría de Seguridad Pública and the head of the Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional regarding Mexico’s evolving strategy in the drug war.
This image is from a demonstration which he witnessed in Mexico City on Avenida Reforma in front of the Monumento a la Independencia (the Angel) on November 15th, 2010.

Ricardo Ainslie interviews former Colombian presidential candidate and FARC hostage, Ingrid Betancourt, for C-SPAN at the Texas Book Festival, October 24, 2010.
Watch the interview here.

Ricardo Ainslie moderates author panel of books related to Mexico’s drug war. The panel was broadcast on C-SPAN during the Texas Book Festival on October 24, 2010.

See the video here.

In September 2010 Ricardo Ainslie interviewed Eduardo Medina-Mora in London. Medina-Mora is Mexico’s ambassador to Great Britain and until September 2009 was the Federal Attorney-General in the cabinet of president Felipe Calderón.