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Author(s): Peter Watt, Roberto Zepeda
ISBN(s): 9781848138865, 1848138865
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Year: 2012
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ISBN 10: 1848138865 
ISBN 13: 9781848138865
Author: Peter Watt, Roberto Zepeda

Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become one of Mexico’s biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug-related executions in 2011 alone. In response, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, armed with millions of dollars in US military aid, has launched a crackdown, ostensibly to combat organised crime. Despite this, human rights violations have increased, as has the murder rate, making Ciudad Juárez on the northern border the most dangerous city on the planet. Meanwhile, the supply of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine has continued to grow. In this insightful and controversial book, Watt and Zepeda throw new light on the situation, contending that the ‘war on drugs’ in Mexico is in fact the pretext for a US-backed strategy to bolster unpopular neoliberal policies, a weak yet authoritarian government and a radically unfair status quo.

Drug War Mexico Politics Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy 1st Table of contents:

1. Drug Trafficking in Mexico – History and Background

  • Trafficking in the Early Twentieth Century

  • The Impact of Economic Integration, Capitalist Expansion and Changes in Land Ownership

  • The Post-Revolutionary Government and Smuggling

  • The Cold War Period

2. Cold War Expansion of the Trade and the Repression of Dissent

  • The Other Operation Condor

3. The Political Economy of the ‘War on Drugs’

  • Traffickers and the PRI

  • Consumption in Mexico

  • The Economy, Free Trade, the Washington Consensus and the Cartels

  • US Involvement in Mexico

4. Getting Rich Quick – and Those Who Didn’t

  • ‘Un Político Pobre es un Pobre Político’ (A Politician Who is Poor is a Poor Politician)

  • Figure 4.1 Number of parastatal enterprises in Mexico

  • NAFTA

    • Table 4.1 NAFTA, European Union and China

    • Table 4.2 Main features of NAFTA members

  • ‘A Guy of Absolute Unquestioned Integrity’

  • ‘The Zapatistas Have to be Eliminated’

5. El Cambio (The Change)

  • Democratisation

    • Figure 5.1 Governorship in Mexico by political party

    • Table 5.1 Composition of the Senate by political party

    • Table 5.2 Composition of the Chamber of Deputies by political party

    • Figure 5.2 Number of votes by party in the presidential elections

  • Economic Factors

    • Table 5.3 GDP growth rates in selected Latin American countries

    • Figure 5.3 GDP growth by decades in Mexico

    • Figure 5.4 Maquiladora and non-maquiladora jobs in Mexico

  • Unemployment

  • ‘We All Seem to Know This Except for the Authorities’

6. War is Peace

  • Figure 6.1 Number of homicides related to narcotrafficking in Mexico

  • ‘A Danger for Mexico’

  • Violent Crime and Human Rights

    • Table 6.1 Government spending on security-related institutions

    • Table 6.2 List of the most wanted narcotraffickers in Mexico, with data of captures

    • Table 6.3 Rise in crime

  • The Mérida Initiative

    • Table 6.4 Seizures of arms in Mexico

  • Colombianización

  • Strengthening Institutions of Justice?

  • Vetting the New Police Force

  • Criminalising Dissent

  • ‘Armouring NAFTA’

  • Money Laundering

  • The Favoured Cartel

    • Figure 6.2 Territories controlled by crime organisations

    • Table 6.5 Number of deaths related to narcotrafficking in Mexico, by state

7. Another Century of Drug War?

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