Drug War Zone : : Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez /

Drug War Zone : : Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez / / Howard Campbell.

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Thousands of people die in drug-related violence every year in Mexico. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, adjacent to El Paso, Texas, has become the most violent city in the Mexican drug war. Much of the cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine consumed in the United States is imported across the Mexican bord...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Campbell, Howard,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Smuggling in the Drug War Zone
  • Introduction: Drug Trafficking—Studies and Sources Relevant to the Mexican-American Drug War Zone
  • La Nacha: The Heroin Queen of Juárez
  • The Roots of Contraband Smuggling in El Paso
  • Female Drug Lord
  • Community-Based Drug Use, Smuggling, and Dealing in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Selling Drugs in Downtown Juárez: Juan and Jorge
  • A Young Smuggler and His Family
  • Blaxicans: The Life of a Chicano Smuggler and Musician on the Borderline of African American and Mexican American Culture
  • Drug Addiction and Drug Trafficking in the Life of an Anarchist
  • Drug Smuggling through Tunnels: The Tale of a Scuba-Diving Instructor
  • Witness to a Juárez Drug Killing
  • PART II. Law Enforcement in the Drug War Zone
  • Introduction: Ethnographic Dimensions of Law Enforcement in the Drug War Zone
  • Undercover Agent on the Border: Cultural Disguises
  • The Death of Francisco
  • A Juárez Policeman Fighting Drug Traffickers
  • Journalism and Drug Trafficking: Covering the Narco Beat on the Border
  • Patrolling the Drug War Zone: A Border Patrol Agent in the War on Drugs
  • Intelligence and the Drug War: Commander of an Antidrug Task Force on the Border
  • Excerpt from Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler, by Jerry Kamstra
  • Agent against Prohibition
  • Epilogue and Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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