Salcedo Larios, Hugo
This article refers to the federal government´s declaration of war against drug cartels and organized crime. Although this motion was made during the six-year presidential term of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (2006-2012), the effects that also hit the civilian population and the most disadvantaged sectors have not ceased to be felt, in a sequel of horr...
Vargas González, Isaac
The crisis of disappearances in Mexico worsened in 2007, when then-President Felipe Calderon launched the war on drugs. Since then, more than 80,000 people have been reported as missing. In this panorama of violence and uncertainty, a bureaucratic apparatus tries to manage the search and mourning of families still awaiting the return of their loved...
Klein, Axel
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Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT
Polydrug use is presented as a particular drug-use phenomenon when the combination of substances is and always has been the practice. The origin of the term is found in the early years of the war on drugs under the Nixon administration in the US, when it was used to justify the intensification of repressive measures against drug users and to counte...
Whalin, Luke L. Block, Walter E.
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Acta Economica Et Turistica
Why is it that young Italian-American men were shooting each other over turf during the prohibition of alcohol in the 20th century, and young African-American men are shooting each other over turf in the 21st? Was this just a historical accident? Could it easily have been the other way around? That is the question with which the present paper attem...
Syvertsen, Jennifer L Bazzi, Angela Robertson Mittal, María Luisa
Sensationalistic media coverage has fueled stereotypes of the Mexican border city of Tijuana as a violent battleground of the global drug war. While the drug war shapes health and social harms in profoundly public ways, less visible are the experiences and practices of hope that forge communities of care and represent more private responses to this...
Syvertsen, Jennifer L Bazzi, Angela Robertson Mittal, María Luisa
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Medical anthropology
Sensationalistic media coverage has fueled stereotypes of the Mexican border city of Tijuana as a violent battleground of the global drug war. While the drug war shapes health and social harms in profoundly public ways, less visible are the experiences and practices of hope that forge communities of care and represent more private responses to this...
Garcia, Angela Anderson, Brian
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Transcultural psychiatry
Informal, coercive residential centers for the treatment of addiction are widespread and growing throughout Latin America. In Mexico these centers are called "anexos" and they are run and utilized by low-income individuals and families with problems related to drugs and alcohol. This article draws on findings from a 3-year anthropological study of ...
Aspinwall, Mark Reich, Simon
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International Politics
Thucydides said that ‘Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must’. Such is the characterization by many scholars of the US dominance of Mexico. We challenge this claim in explaining a puzzle: why American unilateralism in the ‘war on drugs’ results in s...
Ochoa, Isabel Martinez
The general understanding of Mexico's drug war has tended toward simplistic, particularly in our assumption that the states in which the drug war exists are failed states based on a narrow definition of state legitimacy as dependent on a monopoly of violence. Through the cartels' use of violence and the use of violence by the Autodefensas born to f...
Glusniewska, Magdalena
Drug war has become a global issue that is affecting the whole population. One country that has been especially affected is Mexico. There are more than 120 million people living in Mexico and only in 2007 and 2008 more than eight thousand were assassinated in relation to drug conflicts, including over 500 police officers. Kidnapping has also increa...