Cops and Robbers: Making drugs illegal creates criminals, "robbers." Once the "robbers" are created, that gives the "cops"something to do. Here is the first installment in the Los Angeles Times "cops and robbers" series on the Sinaloa cartel vs the "drug cops," the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel: DEA unravels a cocaine cartel web - latimes.com: For several years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration put the distribution side of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel under a microscope. This series describes the detailed picture that emerged of how the cartel moves drugs into Southern California and across the United States.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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