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Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico -

Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Buch | Softcover
368 Seiten
2024
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6736-5 (ISBN)
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Brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. The essays in this study explore this complicated narrative and provide insight into Mexico's history and the wider contemporary global drug trade.
This work brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. While the US and Mexican governments developed anti-drug discourses and policies, which criminalized both high-profile traffickers and small-time addicts, these authorities also employed the criminals and cash connected to the drug trade to pursue more pressing political concerns. The politics, socioeconomic relations, and criminal justice system of modern Mexico have been shaped by these public and covert policies as well as by subnational histories of drug production and trafficking. The essays in this study explore this complicated narrative and provide insight into Mexico's history and the wider contemporary global drug trade.

Wil G. Pansters is a professor of social and political anthropology of Latin America at Utrecht University. He is the editor of Violence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur and La Santa Muerte in Mexico: History, Devotion, and Society (UNM Press . Benjamin T. Smith is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. His works include The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade; The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street; and The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962 (UNM Press .

List of IllustrationsChapter One. Writing Twentieth-Century Mexico’s Drug Histories

     Wil G. Pansters and Benjamin T. Smith




Part I. The Emerging Prohibition Regime: Policies, Policing, and Popular Vices

Chapter Two. “Pressure-Response” and the Origins of Mexican Drug Prohibition, 1912–1920: A Reassessment

     Isaac Campos

Chapter Three. Popular Vices and Revolutionary Restrictions: Drugs and Mexican Society, 1910–1920

     Ricardo Pérez Montfort

Chapter Four. Drugs, Control, and Corruption: The Antinarcotics Police in Mexico City, 1920–1947

     Nidia A. Olvera Hernández




Part II. Drug Trafficking, Social Relations, Political Protection, and Law Enforcement during the Mexican Miracle

Chapter Five. La Nacha, the Godmother of Border Trafficking: Transnational Drugs and Gendered Power in Ciudad Juárez, 1920–1960

     Elaine Carey

Chapter Six. Highs and Lows: Drug Trafficking in Baja California, 1930–1960

Benjamin T. Smith and Wil G. Pansters

Chapter Seven. Policing the Drug Trade: U.S. Narcotic Agents in Mexico (1936–1963

     Carlos Pérez Ricart

Chapter Eight. “Rayando la bola, cortando la rama”: The Production of Opium and Marijuana in Sinaloa (1940–ca. 1975

     Juan Antonio Fernández Velázquez

Chapter Nine. With a Little Help from His Friends: Juan N. Guerra, Smuggling, and Drug Trafficking in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León, 1940s–1960s

     Carlos Antonio Flores Pérez




Part III. Drug Trafficking, the Drug War, the Dirty War, and the Unintended Consequences

Chapter Ten. Caciques, Traffickers, and Soldiers: Drug Trafficking in the Cardenista Territory of Michoacán (1960–1970

     Salvador Maldonado Aranda

Chapter Eleven. The War on Drugs, Counterinsurgency, and the State of Siege in the Golden Triangle (1977–1982

     Adela Cedillo

Chapter Twelve. Grupo Sangre: Drugs, Death Squads, and the Dirty War Origins of Mexico’s Drug Wars

     Alexander Aviña

Chapter Thirteen. Heroin, the Herreras, and the “Chicago Connection”: The Drug Trade in Durango, 1950–1985

     Nathaniel Morris




Part IV. Conclusions

Chapter Fourteen. Drugs, Crime, and Violence in Modern Mexico

     Alan Knight




List of Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 7 Illustrations, 7 maps
Verlagsort Albuquerque, NM
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 0-8263-6736-4 / 0826367364
ISBN-13 978-0-8263-6736-5 / 9780826367365
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