War on Drugs
The War on Drugs encompasses the set of policies, operations, and institutions initiated by the Nixon administration in 1969 and expanded through subsequent presidencies. In the US-Mexico context, it produced a series of bilateral enforcement operations that paradoxically reorganized and modernized drug trafficking, pushing it from rural cottage industry into urban corporate structures with deeper state penetration and ultimately greater capacity for violence.
Referenced by
- sourcesHome Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
- sourcesOperation Condor: Mexico's Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era
- sourcesDrug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis Through 2009
- sourcesOperation Condor, The War on Drugs, and Counterinsurgency in the Golden Triangle (1977-1983)
- sourcesHonduras: A Narco-State Made in the United States
- sourcesHistories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico
- sourcesBeyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice
- sourcesHow the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
- sourcesCocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America
- sourcesDesperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win
- sourcesUnderstanding Mexico's Drug Violence
- sourcesMexico's Dirty War: A Reassessment
- sourcesUS Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950-62
- 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
- peopleBenjamin T. Smith
- peopleDavid A. Shirk
- eventsAllende Massacre
- eventsThe Camarena Affair
- eventsConviction of Juan Orlando Hernández
- eventsOperation Condor (Mexico)
- eventsOperation Intercept
- topicsMexican Drug Trade