A Narco history : how the United States and Mexico jointly created the "Mexican Drug War"

The Resource A Narco history : how the United States and Mexico jointly created the "Mexican Drug War"

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A Narco history : how the United States and Mexico jointly created the "Mexican Drug War"

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how the United States and Mexico jointly created the "Mexican Drug War"

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Carmen Boullosa & Mike Wallace

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eng

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The term Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcerwith increasingly deadly consequences. Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hu

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HV5831.M6

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