Narcostates
civil war, crime, and the war on drugs in Mexico and Central America
- ISBN: 9781962551663
- Editorial: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: Boulder. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 358
- Idiomas: Inglés
How did Mexico and Central America become a lawless corridor for conveying narcotics into the United States? How did the drug cartels rise to power, succeeding in institutionalizing the narco-industry? Why have the police and military failed to rein the cartels in? What have been the consequences of the US-led "war on drugs?" William Marcy's Narcostates provides answers to these questions and more. Tracing the evolution of narcotrafficking across the region, and drawing on newly declassified documents, Marcy unravels the tangled web of violence, corruption, and political instability that has empowered drug trafficking organizations since the 1970s
Foreword / De Leon Petta Gomes da Costa
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
