Drug War

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/9/2020
  

  Cienfuegos Must also Answer for the Apatzingán Massacre

  by Laura Castellanos

  The former Secretary of National Defense for Mexico has been arrested on charges related to drug trafficking. He must face accountability for overseeing a security regime that perpetrated coordinated violence against journalists and civilians. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
  10/5/2020
  

  “Entrepreneurial Greed” — A Review Of Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, And The Decade Of Greed

  David Farber's book examines the entrepreneurial culture of crack cocaine and how the drug trade meshed with Reagan-era changes in urban political economy.

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• SOURCE: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
  4/30/2020
  

  A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies

  by Alexander Aviña

  The history of American alliances abroad doesn't make sense as a drug control strategy, but is consistent with a strategy of invoking the war on drugs to punish governments that resist U.S. domination.

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• 11/18/18
  

  What’s More Deadly to Mexicans than the Drug War? Diabetes.

  by Alyshia Gálvez

  Here’s why that should concern Americans in the wake of the negotiations over the US, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement.