"This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American…
This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American)…
"This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American…
"This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American…
Edward Hollis had a Sig Sauer pistol shoved into his ribs while working deep undercover in Burma, purchasing heroin from an army of stone zombie insurgents. He was told he was never going to walk out of the jungle alive. In this and other situations like it, all he could do was …
Edward Hollis had a Sig Sauer pistol shoved into his ribs while working deep undercover in Burma, purchasing heroin from an army of stone zombie insurgents. He was told he was never going to walk out of the jungle alive. In this and other situations like it, all he could do was …
Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on …
Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on …
Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on …
"This book... takes as a principle object of study 'narconarratives' like the novels analyzed in the final three chapters; these analyses call for a theorization of intoxication as a cultural phenomenon in the geographical and historical context of a globalized Latin America. T…
This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic sobriety in these works or discounted them altogether as…
The author describes the normalized barbarism in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Rodriguez gives information about the city Ciudad Juárez and the femicide machine: an apparatus that guaranteed impunity for crimes against women and little girls and the legalization of these crimes.
