Wil G. Pansters is a professor of social and political anthropology of Latin America at Utrecht University. He is the editor of Violence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur and La Santa Muerte in Mexico: History, Devotion, and Society (UNM Press).
Benjamin T. Smith is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. His works include The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade; The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940–1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street; and The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750–1962 (UNM Press).
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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
