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Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico

by Wil G. Pansters, Benjamin T. Smith

Published: 2022

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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Regions: Mexico
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Edited collection bringing together a new generation of drug historians exploring how US and Mexican governments developed anti-drug policies while simultaneously employing criminals connected to the drug trade. Contributors examine the entanglement of state-building, corruption, and narcotrafficking across the 20th century.