Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?Routledge, 28 jul 2017 - 275 pagina's * Mexico was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2010 by Choice Magazine.Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations, castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its northern neighbor, and the prospects for managing it.Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled in Tammany Hall fashion for seventy-nine years before losing the presidency in 2000 to the center-right National Action Party (PAN). Grayson focuses on drug wars, prohibition, corruption, and other antecedents that occurred during the PRI's hegemony. He illuminates the diaspora of drug cartels and their fragmentation, analyzes the emergence of new gangs, sets forth President Felipe Calderi?1/2n's strategy against vicious criminal organizations, and assesses its relative success. Grayson reviews the effect of narcotics-focused issues in U.S.-Mexican relations. He considers the possibility that Mexico may become a failed state, as feared by opinion-leaders, even as it pursues an aggressive but thus far unsuccessful crusade against the importation, processing, and sale of illegal substances.Becoming a failed state involves two dimensions of state power: its scope, or the different functions and goals taken on by governments, and its strength, or the government's ability to plan and execute policies. The Mexican state boasts an extensive scope evidenced by its monopoly over the petroleum industry, its role as the major supplier of electricity, its financing of public education, its numerous retirement and health-care programs, its control of public universities, and its dominance |
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Wars Prohibition and the Antecedents of Narco Churches | |
The Weakening of the Revolutionary Church | |
Diaspora of the Narco Churches | |
Calderóns AntiDrug Strategy | |
Crusade against Evil Antagonists | |
Emerging and New Narco Sects Los Zetas and La Familia | |
Selected Figures in NarcoTrafficking | |
Women and NarcoTrafficking | |
Annual Causes of Death in the United States | |
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agencies agents Álvarez Ángel anti-drug April Arellano Félix armed forces Army arrested Arturo Attorney authorities Beltrán Leyva brothers border Calderón captured Cárdenas Guillén Carrillo Fuentes Chapo chief Chihuahua church Ciudad Juárez cocaine Colombian corruption criminal death December Drug Cartels drug lords drug trafficking El Universal Enrique executive Familia February federal police Felipe Calderón Félix Gallardo Francisco García Luna Gómez González governor Guerrero Gulf Cartel Gutiérrez Guzmán Loera Héctor Hernández Jalisco January Jesús Jorge José Juan Juárez Cartel June kidnappings killed Laredo law enforcement Lázaro Cárdenas leader León López Los Zetas Luis March marijuana Mérida Mexican Mexico City Michoacán Miguel Milenio military Million Pesos municipalities murder narco narco-traffickers National November Nuevo Nuevo León October officers operations Osiel Cárdenas percent plaza President prison Public Security Raúl Reforma reported revolutionary Salinas Secretary September Sinaloa Cartel soldiers Sonora Tamaulipas Tijuana Tijuana Cartel United Veracruz violence Zambada Zetas