Eugenio Weigend Vargas
Director, Gun Violence Prevention, Center for American Progress (website)
twitter: @eugenioweigend
email: eweigend [at] americanprogress [dot] org
Director, Gun Violence Prevention, Center for American Progress (website)
twitter: @eugenioweigend
email: eweigend [at] americanprogress [dot] org
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) | Latin America | arms trafficking
Eugenio Weigend Vargas is the director for Gun Violence Prevention at the Center for American Progress. His research has focused on preventing arms trafficking and gun violence in the United States and Mexico. He has published numerous reports, fact sheets, and issue briefs advocating for measures that strengthen gun laws in the United States at the state and federal levels.
Weigend has provided testimonies before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights as well as the Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Firearms Trafficking in the Americas and has been invited to speak at conferences at Oxford University, Georgetown University, Washington University, Colegio de Mexico, and Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico.
Prior to joining the Center for American Progress, Weigend was a researcher at Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, where he focused his research on mitigating violence across the Mexican states. In 2013, he co-authored a book on policies to mitigate the rise of violence in Mexico. Weigend has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University and the University of Texas in El Paso. He holds a master’s degree in public affairs from Brown University and a doctorate from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Eugenio Weigend Vargas is the director for Gun Violence Prevention at the Center for American Progress. His research has focused on preventing arms trafficking and gun violence in the United States and Mexico. He has published numerous reports, fact sheets, and issue briefs advocating for measures that strengthen gun laws in the United States at the state and federal levels.
Weigend has provided testimonies before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights as well as the Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Firearms Trafficking in the Americas and has been invited to speak at conferences at Oxford University, Georgetown University, Washington University, Colegio de Mexico, and Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico.
Prior to joining the Center for American Progress, Weigend was a researcher at Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, where he focused his research on mitigating violence across the Mexican states. In 2013, he co-authored a book on policies to mitigate the rise of violence in Mexico. Weigend has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University and the University of Texas in El Paso. He holds a master’s degree in public affairs from Brown University and a doctorate from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Recent Publications
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- "A New Lawsuit Illustrates the Problem of U.S. Guns in Mexico," Center for American Progress, September 2, 2021.*
- "Luces y sombras de la demanda mexicana contra las armerías estadunidenses," nexos, August 16, 2021.*
- "¿Quiénes y por qué adquieren armas en México?," Chronica, July 14, 2021.*
- "Emotional and physical symptoms after gun victimization in the United States, 2009-2019," Preventative Medicine, February 2021.
- “Gun Trafficking and Violence: From The Global Network to The Local Security Challenge," multiple editors and authors, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
- “Gun Acquisition in Mexico 2012-2018: findings from Mexico’s National Crime Victimization Survey,” with Carlos Pérez Ricart, British Journal of Criminology, 2021.
- "The Gun Industry in America: The Overlooked Player in a National Crisis," Center for American Progress, August 6, 2020.*
- "Firearms and Injuries during Home Robberies in Mexico, 2010–2017," Trends in Organized Crime, April 1, 2020.*
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