War on Drugs
The War on Drugs encompasses the set of policies, operations, and institutions initiated by the Nixon administration in 1969 and expanded through subsequent presidencies. In the US-Mexico context, it produced a series of bilateral enforcement operations that paradoxically reorganized and modernized drug trafficking, pushing it from rural cottage industry into urban corporate structures with deeper state penetration and ultimately greater capacity for violence.
Referenced by
- sourcesMarijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
- sourcesHome Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
- sourcesWomen Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime
- sourcesOperation Condor: Mexico's Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era
- sourcesThe Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes
- sourcesDrug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis Through 2009
- sourcesOperation Condor, The War on Drugs, and Counterinsurgency in the Golden Triangle (1977-1983)
- sourcesNarco-Violence and the State in Modern Mexico
- sourcesHonduras: A Narco-State Made in the United States
- sourcesDrug War Capitalism
- sourcesHistories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico
- sourcesBeyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice
- sourcesThe United States and the War on Drugs in Mexico, 1940–1980
- sourcesHow the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
- sourcesCocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America
- sourcesDesperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win
- sourcesUnderstanding Mexico's Drug Violence
- sourcesMexico's Dirty War: A Reassessment
- sourcesUS Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950-62
- sourcesThe Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
- sourcesShared Responsibility: U.S.-Mexico Policy Options for Confronting Organized Crime
- notesHow Counter-Narcotics Created the Cartels: Northern Mexico 1969–1989
- notesNarco Corruption Across Latin America: Comparative Patterns
- notesNarco-History as a Genealogy: From Campos to Pérez Ricart
- notesLos Zetas and the Recurring Fragmentation Cycle
- peopleBenjamin T. Smith
- peopleCarlos A. Pérez Ricart
- peopleDavid A. Shirk
- peopleDawn Paley
- peopleElaine Carey
- peopleHarry J. Anslinger
- peopleIsaac Campos
- peopleLeopoldo Salazar Viniegra
- peopleLina Britto
- peopleMaría Dolores Estévez Zuleta ("Lola la Chata")
- peoplePaul Gootenberg
- eventsAllende Massacre
- eventsCalderón Launches Military Offensive Against Cartels
- eventsThe Camarena Affair
- eventsConviction of Juan Orlando Hernández
- eventsOperation Condor (Mexico)
- eventsOperation Intercept
- eventsSalazar Viniegra Morphine Dispensary Experiment
- topicsDrug War Capitalism
- topicsMexican Drug Trade
- topicsState-Crime Co-Constitution