A Narco History: "How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the ""Mexican Drug War"""

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Carmen Boullosa Mike Wallace

A Narco History

"How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the ""Mexican Drug War"""

Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace

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English

OR Books
21 February 2017

History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Crime & criminology; Political science & theory; International relations

"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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to end it."

By: Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace
Imprint: OR Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 297g
ISBN: 9781944869120
ISBN 10: 1944869123
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 21 February 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carmen Boullosa has published fifteen novels, most recently Tejas, La virgen y el violn, El complot de los romnticos and Las paredes hablan. Her novels in English translation are Texas: The Great Theft; They're Cows, We're Pigs; Leaving Tabasco and Cleopatra Dismounts. She has received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in Mexico, the Anna Seghers and Liberaturpreis in Germany, and the Caf Gijn Prize in Madrid. She is a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Creadores. Mike Wallace, Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center, and founder of the Gotham Center for New York City History, won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press), co-written with Edwin Burrows. He is a co-founder of the Radical History Review and author of the essay collection Mickey Mouse History (1996).