Tag: mexico
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The narcocorrido does not begin with champagne. It begins with dust. A guitar is plucked like a heel on hard earth. An accordion breathes like a man who has walked too far. The song smells of diesel, gun oil, and the kitchen where a mother is still boiling beans for a son who will not…
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The multi-billion-dollar cartel networks of Mexico and Colombia are conventionally framed as criminal pathologies—lawless enterprises to be suppressed through militarized interdiction and crop eradication. This framing is analytically inadequate. A substantial body of scholarship in political science, rural sociology, and critical drug policy studies converges on a different conclusion: these networks are the direct consequence…