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The Dope - The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (Paperback)
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The Dope - The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 1 900
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Discover the secret history behind the headlines. The Mexican drug
wars have inspired countless articles, TV shows and movies. From
Breaking Bad to Sicario, El Chapo's escapes to Trump's tirades,
this is a story we think we know. But there's a hidden history to
the biggest story of the twenty-first century. The Dope exposes how
an illicit industry that started with farmers, families and healers
came to be dominated by cartels, kingpins and corruption. Benjamin
T Smith traces an unforgettable cast of characters from the early
twentieth century to the modern day, whose actions came to
influence Mexico as we now know it. There's Enrique Fernandez, the
borderlands trafficker who became Mexico's first major narco and
one of the first victims of the war on drugs; Eduardo 'Lalo'
Fernandez, Mexico's most prominent heroin chemist and first major
cocaine importer; Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, the brilliant doctor
and Marxist who tried (and failed) to decriminalize Mexico's drugs;
and Harry Anslinger, the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
whose sensationalist strategies paved the way for U.S. interference
and the extraordinary levels of violence in Mexico today. The Dope
is the epic saga of how violence and corruption came to plague
modern Mexico, and the first book to make sense of the political
and economic big picture of the Mexican drug wars.
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