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A Narco History

By Carmen Boullosa

A Narco History

By Carmen Boullosa

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The term 'Mexican Drug War' 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 enforcer-with increasingly deadly consequences.Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hugely from supplying Americans with what their government forbade them. But the policies that spawned the drug war have proved disastrous for both countries.Written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, A Narco History reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to end it.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2016-12-01
Publication Date:
2016-11-15
Publisher:
OR Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1944869123
ISBN13:
9781944869120
Weight:
298 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
190 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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