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"Midnight in "Mexico: Descent Into Darkness"

Issue Date: 
March 28, 2011
Alfredo Corchado (right), Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News, was the featured speaker for the University of Pittsburgh American Experience Distinguished Lecture Series of the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy and the University Honors College on March 16 in the Twentieth Century Club. The lecture, “Midnight in Mexico: Descent Into Darkness,” gave Corchado’s personal account of Mexico’s accelerating violence and a search for hope from both sides of the border amid the bloodiest period since the 1910 Mexican revolution. Discussion moderators included Pitt alumnus and trustee Dick Thornburgh (LAW ’57), former governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, attorney general of the United States, and U.N. Undersecretary General, who is now counsel to the international law firm K&L Gates in its Washington, D.C., office.Alfredo Corchado (right), Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News, was the featured speaker for the University of Pittsburgh American Experience Distinguished Lecture Series of the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy and the University Honors College on March 16 in the Twentieth Century Club. The lecture, “Midnight in Mexico: Descent Into Darkness,” gave Corchado’s personal account of Mexico’s accelerating violence and a search for hope from both sides of the border amid the bloodiest period since the 1910 Mexican revolution. Discussion moderators included Pitt alumnus and trustee Dick Thornburgh (LAW ’57), former governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, attorney general of the United States, and U.N. Undersecretary General, who is now counsel to the international law firm K&L Gates in its Washington, D.C., office.