Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico

List of Illustrations
Chapter One. Writing Twentieth-Century Mexico's Drug Histories
Wil G. Pansters and Benjamin T. Smith

Part I. The Emerging Prohibition Regime: Policies, Policing, and Popular Vices
Chapter Two. "Pressure-Response" and the Origins of Mexican Drug Prohibition, 1912-1920: A Reassessment
Isaac Campos
Chapter Three. Popular Vices and Revolutionary Restrictions: Drugs and Mexican Society, 1910-1920
Ricardo Pérez Montfort
Chapter Four. Drugs, Control, and Corruption: The Antinarcotics Police in Mexico City, 1920-1947
Nidia A. Olvera Hernández

Part II. Drug Trafficking, Social Relations, Political Protection, and Law Enforcement during the Mexican Miracle
Chapter Five. La Nacha, the Godmother of Border Trafficking: Transnational Drugs and Gendered Power in Ciudad Juárez, 1920-1960
Elaine Carey
Chapter Six. Highs and Lows: Drug Trafficking in Baja California, 1930-1960
Benjamin T. Smith and Wil G. Pansters
Chapter Seven. Policing the Drug Trade: U.S. Narcotic Agents in Mexico (1936-1963)
Carlos Pérez Ricart
Chapter Eight. "Rayando la bola, cortando la rama": The Production of Opium and Marijuana in Sinaloa (1940-ca. 1975)
Juan Antonio Fernández Velázquez
Chapter Nine. With a Little Help from His Friends: Juan N. Guerra, Smuggling, and Drug Trafficking in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León, 1940s-1960s
Carlos Antonio Flores Pérez

Part III. Drug Trafficking, the Drug War, the Dirty War, and the Unintended Consequences
Chapter Ten. Caciques, Traffickers, and Soldiers: Drug Trafficking in the Cardenista Territory of Michoacán (1960-1970)
Salvador Maldonado Aranda
Chapter Eleven. The War on Drugs, Counterinsurgency, and the State of Siege in the Golden Triangle (1977-1982)
Adela Cedillo
Chapter Twelve. Grupo Sangre: Drugs, Death Squads, and the Dirty War Origins of Mexico's Drug Wars
Alexander Aviña
Chapter Thirteen. Heroin, the Herreras, and the "Chicago Connection": The Drug Trade in Durango, 1950-1985
Nathaniel Morris

Part IV. Conclusions
Chapter Fourteen. Drugs, Crime, and Violence in Modern Mexico
Alan Knight

List of Contributors
Index