* Mexico was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2010 by
Choice Magazine.
Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged,
and their impact on the United States is the subject of this
frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations,
castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many
Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the
border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of
violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its
northern neighbor, and the prospects for managing it.
Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled in
Tammany Hall fashion for seventy-nine years before losing the
presidency in 2000 to the center-right National Action Party (PAN).
Grayson focuses on drug wars, prohibition, corruption, and other
antecedents that occurred during the PRI's hegemony. He illuminates
the diaspora of drug cartels and their fragmentation, analyzes the
emergence of new gangs, sets forth President Felipe Calderi1/2n's
strategy against vicious criminal organizations, and assesses its
relative success. Grayson reviews the effect of narcotics-focused
issues in U.S.-Mexican relations. He considers the possibility that
Mexico may become a failed state, as feared by opinion-leaders,
even as it pursues an aggressive but thus far unsuccessful crusade
against the importation, processing, and sale of illegal
substances.
Becoming a "failed state" involves two dimensions of state
power: its scope, or the different functions and goals taken on by
governments, and its strength, or the government's ability to plan
and execute policies. The Mexican state boasts an extensive scope
evidenced by its monopoly over the petroleum industry, its role as
the major supplier of electricity, its financing of public
education, its numerous retirement and health-care programs, its
control of public universities, and its dominance over the armed
forces. The state has not yet taken control of drug trafficking,
and its strength is steadily diminishing. This explosive book is
thus a study of drug cartels, but also state disintegration.
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