On March 4, 2020, Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo testified before Congress on “Global Illicit Networks and their Facilitators in the Americas: Countering the Threat from Mexican Cartels and the Opioid Epidemic” at a hearing titled “The Traffickers’ Roadmap: How Bad Actors Exploit Financial Systems to Facilitate the Illicit Trade in People, Animals, Drugs, and Weapons” before the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services – Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy.