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A Narco history, how the United States and Mexico jointly created the "Mexican Drug War", Carmen Boullosa & Mike Wallace

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A Narco history, how the United States and Mexico jointly created the "Mexican Drug War", Carmen Boullosa & Mike Wallace

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A Narco history

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electronic resource eBook

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dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Carmen Boullosa & Mike Wallace

Sub title

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

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Forty-Three -- Chapter One: 1910s -1930s -- Chapter Two: 1940s - 1950s -- Chapter Three: 1960s - 1970s -- Chapter Four: 1980s -- Chapter Five: 1988 -- Chapter Six: 1990s -- Chapter Seven: 2000 - 2006 -- Chapter Eight: 2006 -- Chapter Nine: 2006 - 2012 -- Chapter Ten: 2012 -- Chapter Eleven: 2012 - -- Chapter Twelve: New Directions -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- About the Authors

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