Mexico’s leftist President AMLO condemned “hypocritical” Republicans who want the US military to invade, declaring “Mexico is an independent and free country...
I realize the summary on libgen is ass. Basically a new history of the Mexican War on Drugs. It is problematizing the idea of drug cartels as just criminal organizations, divorced from the reality of Mexican and US state violence and the consequences of the Drug War on the Mexican populace generally. It flips the script on the drug war, showing how violence usually emanated from an armed police and military, when they couldn’t find coherent cartels to destroy. Finally, it talks about how the presidents of Mexico have had similar or different positions and effects on the War, with a brief afterword on AMLO for anyone curious.
A solid Marxist explanation that was translated recently
I realize the summary on libgen is ass. Basically a new history of the Mexican War on Drugs. It is problematizing the idea of drug cartels as just criminal organizations, divorced from the reality of Mexican and US state violence and the consequences of the Drug War on the Mexican populace generally. It flips the script on the drug war, showing how violence usually emanated from an armed police and military, when they couldn’t find coherent cartels to destroy. Finally, it talks about how the presidents of Mexico have had similar or different positions and effects on the War, with a brief afterword on AMLO for anyone curious.
A solid Marxist explanation that was translated recently
nice i might do that recently started with this buying books thing ...