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Drug cartels do not exist : narcotrafficking in US and Mexican culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zavala, Oswaldo, 1975- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Savinar, William, 1990- (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Spanish.
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Series:Critical Mexican studies.
Subjects:
Drug traffic > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Drug control > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Drug traffic > United States > History > 20th century.
Drug control > United States > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
Drug control.
Drug traffic.
Mexico.
United States.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the invention of a formidable enemy
  • Narco culture depoliticized
  • The cartels don't exist (but state violence does)
  • Four writers subverting the narconarrative
  • Drug trafficking, soldiers, and police on the border
  • Epilogue: the new "cartel war" is not new, nor a war, nor between cartels.