The dope : the real history of the Mexican drug trade /

The dope : the real history of the Mexican drug trade / Benjamin T. Smith.

"A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade that reveals how an industry founded by farmers and village healers became dominated by cartels and kingpins. The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble co...

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Main Author: Smith, Benjamin T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Drug traffic > Mexico > History.
Organized crime > Mexico > History.
Drug dealers > Mexico.
Drug control.
Drug dealers.
Drug traffic.
Organized crime.
Latin America.
Mexico.
True crime.
Political science.
History.
True crime stories.
Récits criminels.
Table of Contents:
  • PROLOGUE. The lookout
  • I. FIRST PUFFS, 1910-1940. The king of the grifos
  • White lady, black market
  • Pipes and prejudice
  • Vice and violence
  • Drugs in depression
  • The revolutionary
  • II. COMING UP, 1940-1960. The golden triangle
  • The governors and the gypsy
  • The Cadillac bust
  • The new status quo
  • Queen pin
  • III. THE HIGH, 1960-1975. The Mexican stopover
  • Acapulco gold
  • Mexican brown
  • The rackets
  • IV. THE COMEDOWN, 1970-1990. Narcs
  • The atrocities
  • The barbarians of the North
  • The "Guadalajara Cartel"
  • The martyr and the spook
  • V. INTO THE ABYSS, 1990-2020. The takeover
  • Wars
  • EPILOGUE. Drugs and violence.

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