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Operation Condor: Mexico's Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era

by Richard Craig

Published: 1980

Publisher: Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 3

Regions: Mexico, Sinaloa
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Early scholarly analysis of Operation Condor’s implementation and implications, published in the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (August 1980, pp. 345–363). One of the foundational academic treatments of Mexico’s militarized anti-drug campaign in the Golden Triangle.

See also Craig’s earlier article “La Campaña Permanente: Mexico’s Antidrug Campaign” (JISAW, Vol. 20, May 1978, pp. 107–131).