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A Narco History
- How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
The term Mexican Drug War misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the US role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from and sell weapons to Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the US prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer - with increasingly deadly consequences. Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hugely from supplying Americans with what their government forbade them. But the policies that spawned the drug war have proved disastrous for both countries. Written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, A Narco History reviews the interlocking 20th-century histories that produced this 21st-century calamity and proposes how to end it.
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- Mr. Ga Wynne
- 25-08-21
Bleak but fascinating documentary
This audiobook is a bit 'academic paper' in tone sometimes and the narrator isn't amazing, but it's fascinating and well researched, if very bleak. The total failure of the 'war on drugs' and it's dire consequences laid bare.
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- Miss Sabina Carr
- 21-05-23
Really interesting
Really interesting but it lost it a bit with to many stats. The end was very honest and worrying for all of us .
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- Mike Smith
- 20-01-22
Great book
Very informative and unbiased look at the world of narcotics traffickers.
Well worth a listen.
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- HellRazor
- 26-11-21
Conversation on The War On Drugs
A pointed survey of the War On Drugs from Harry Schlessinger through the 2nd decade of the 21 C from the perspective of Mexico.
I think it's fairly safe to say that along with the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan & Iraq America has not won this war, despite the Trillions that have been spent, untold suffering, hardship & death it has caused.
Most interesting to me was the Autodefensia movement in Mexico and how very understandable this type of reaction is from the perspective of a population that has been betrayed, more or less, by the policies in the USA as well as by the incompetence, corruption and wrongheadedness of its own.
Worth a read by anyone interested in the subject.
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- Cathal O'Donoghue
- 19-01-23
Probably too much stats and figures
Liked it.. Maybe too much facts and figures..if you like that sort of thing it's 5 stars
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