Andrés León Araya is an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies at Indiana University. Trained as both a political scientist and an anthropologist, his work looks at the intersections between plantation economies, violence, and state formation. Currently, he is working on two parallel lines of inquiry. First, the overlap between monocrops and drug trafficking in Central America. Second, the process of pacification of Central America and the continuities between the Cold War of the 1980s and the current “war on drugs.”