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A Narco History

How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”

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A Narco History

By: Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace
Narrated by: James Conlan
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The term Mexican Drug War misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the US role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from and sell weapons to Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the US prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer - with increasingly deadly consequences. Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hugely from supplying Americans with what their government forbade them. But the policies that spawned the drug war have proved disastrous for both countries. Written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, A Narco History reviews the interlocking 20th-century histories that produced this 21st-century calamity and proposes how to end it.

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A pointed survey of the War On Drugs from Harry Schlessinger through the 2nd decade of the 21 C from the perspective of Mexico.

I think it's fairly safe to say that along with the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan & Iraq America has not won this war, despite the Trillions that have been spent, untold suffering, hardship & death it has caused.

Most interesting to me was the Autodefensia movement in Mexico and how very understandable this type of reaction is from the perspective of a population that has been betrayed, more or less, by the policies in the USA as well as by the incompetence, corruption and wrongheadedness of its own.

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Liked it.. Maybe too much facts and figures..if you like that sort of thing it's 5 stars

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