"In this updated third edition, Peter Andreas brings the story of the intensifying practice and politics of policing drugs and migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border to the present day and helps make sense of how the busiest border in the world has also become one of the most he…
"In this updated third edition, Peter Andreas brings the story of the intensifying practice and politics of policing drugs and migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border to the present day and helps make sense of how the busiest border in the world has also become one of the most he…
"In this updated third edition, Peter Andreas brings the story of the intensifying practice and politics of policing drugs and migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border to the present day and helps make sense of how the busiest border in the world has also become one of the most he…
Malgré les coups portés aux « cartels » colombiens, jamais les drogues latinoaméricaines - cocaïne, héroïne, drogues de synthèse - n'ont envahi aussi massivement les marchés européens et nord-américains : la « guerre contre les drogues » lancée par Washington est en passe d'être…
Cette enquête montre à quel point le narcotrafic a profondément gangrené la société et l'économie de l'Amérique latine et du Mexique. Et que rien n'y changera, malgré les prétendus succès de la "guerre contre la drogue" menée par les Etats-Unis. Fait intéressant, on y mentionne …
"What if narco violence and trafficking do not threaten the state, but are actually central to its operations? Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traf…
"What if narco violence and trafficking do not threaten the state, but are actually central to its operations?"--
Voted Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice. The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), which existed from 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. The most successful federal law enforcement agency ever, the FBN …
"Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musi…
"Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musi…