The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
Regions: Mexico, Sinaloa
Based on a decade of archival research, leaked DEA and law enforcement documents, and cartel documents. Traces the roots of Mexico’s drug wars from indigenous remedies through the Revolution to the present. Challenges a century of false rhetoric about Mexico’s drug trade, showing how US and Mexican government policies repeatedly reshaped trafficking rather than eliminating it.
Referenced by
- sourcesBeyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice
- sourcesThe Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis
- sourcesState, Crime, and Violence in Mexico, 1920-2000: Arbiters of Impunity, Agents of Coercion
- sourcesUS Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950-62
- notesHow Counter-Narcotics Created the Cartels: Northern Mexico 1969–1989
- notesLos Zetas and the Recurring Fragmentation Cycle