Mexican Drug Trade
The history of drug trafficking in Mexico, from early 20th-century opium cultivation in the Sierra Madre through the formation of modern cartel structures. The trade evolved from a rural, loosely organized activity into a centralized, corporatized enterprise, shaped at every stage by US counter-narcotics policy and Mexican state complicity.
Referenced by
- sourcesHome Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
- sourcesLos Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico
- sourcesThe Executioner's Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Created
- sourcesEl Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
- sourcesNarcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers
- sourcesPolicy Brief: Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)
- sourcesDrug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis Through 2009
- sourcesOrganized Crime and Violence in Mexico: 2019
- sourcesHistories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico
- sourcesBeyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice
- sourcesDesperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win
- sourcesA Tale of Two Mexican Border Cities: The Rise and Decline of Drug Violence in Juárez and Tijuana
- sourcesUnderstanding Mexico's Drug Violence
- 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
- sourcesThe Rise and Fall of Narcopopulism: Drugs, Politics, and Society in Sinaloa, 1930-1980
- sourcesSaints and Demons: Putting La Santa Muerte in Historical Perspective
- sourcesThe Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
- sourcesShared Responsibility: U.S.-Mexico Policy Options for Confronting Organized Crime
- notesHow Counter-Narcotics Created the Cartels: Northern Mexico 1969–1989
- notesNarco Corruption Across Latin America: Comparative Patterns
- notesLos Zetas and the Recurring Fragmentation Cycle
- peopleAnabel Hernández
- peopleBenjamin T. Smith
- peopleDavid A. Shirk
- peopleMiguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
- peopleIoan Grillo
- peopleOctavio Rodriguez Ferreira
- eventsThe Camarena Affair
- eventsFormation of the Guadalajara Cartel
- eventsOperation Condor (Mexico)
- topicsCJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación)
- topicsDFS (Dirección Federal de Seguridad)
- topicsGolden Triangle (Mexico)
- topicsGulf Cartel
- topicsLos Zetas
- topicsNarco Corruption in Brazil