This book provides an in-depth account of military operations
against drug gangs and organizations in two of the biggest
countries in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico. Recent studies on
drug wars have detailed case studies on the war on drugs but do not
focus on the role of the army in such policies. Publications that
do drive attention to the military in such situations are usually
from human rights organizations or the press and are therefore not
scholarly works. There are therefore no recent academic books
dealing with the role of the military in the fight against drugs in
Latin America. This book aims to fill this gap. It also offers an
empirical and theoretical examination of the issue of the role of
the military (rather than the police) on national soil-the army
being generally devoted to interventions abroad, and the police, to
law enforcement on the national ground. The book is also the first
work to look at high-level negotiations between military and
civilian elites that define the conditions for the use of force
during military operations. It provides a theoretically informed
understanding of contemporary security politics in Brazil and
Mexico.
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