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Narcostates : civil war, crime, and the war on drugs in Mexico and Central America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcy, William L. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2023.
Subjects:
Drug control > Mexico.
Drug control > Central America.
Drug control > United States.
Drug control.
Central America.
Mexico.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The opening of a narcotrafficking corridor
  • Early US counternarcotics efforts in Mexico
  • "Cocaine guns" and civil war in Central America
  • The emergence of the Mexican cartel networks
  • Mexico in crisis
  • The Colombian cartels expand their reach
  • The war on drugs spills into Central America
  • Mexico's cartel wars
  • The militarization of the US-Mexican war on drugs
  • The Mexican cartels and youth gangs in Central America
  • Narcotrafficking and the immigration crisis
  • Closing the corridor?
  • Appendix: Narcotraffickers by name and by cartel affiliation.