Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in Us and Mexican Culture

by Oswaldo Zavala

Book Overview

Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's incendiary comments and monstrous policies on the border revealed the character of a deeply depraved leader, state violence on both sides of the border is nothing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826504663
• ISBN13: 9780826504661
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"