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4.1 Number of parastatal enterprises in Mexico, 1930–1994
5.1 Governorship in Mexico by political party, 2011
5.2 Number of votes by party in the presidential elections, 1988–2006
5.3 GDP growth by decades in Mexico, 1940–2010
5.4 Maquiladora and non-Maquiladora jobs in Mexico, 1980–2006
6.1 Number of homocides related to narcotrafficking in Mexico, 2006–2011
6.2 Territories controlled by crime organisations, 2011
4.1 NAFTA, European Union and China, 2006
4.2 Main features of NAFTA members, 2006
5.1 Composition of the Senate by political party, 1982–2006
5.2 Composition of the Chamber of Deputies by political party in Mexico, 1988–2006
5.3 GDP growth rates in selected Latin American countries, 1980–2005
6.1 Government spending on security-related institutions
6.2 List of the most wanted narcotraffickers in Mexico, with data of captures to November 2011
6.3 Rise in crime, 2007 and 2010
6.4 Seizures of arms in Mexico, 1994–2011
6.5 Number of deaths related to narcotrafficking in Mexico by state, 2006–2011
1 Drug Trafficking in Mexico – History and Background
Trafficking in the Early Twentieth Century
The Impact of Economic Integration, Capitalist Expansion and Changes in Land Ownership
The Post-Revolutionary Government and Smuggling
2 Cold War Expansion of the Trade and the Repression of Dissent
The Other Operation Condor
3 The Political Economy of the ‘War on Drugs’
The Economy, Free Trade, the Washington Consensus and the Cartels
4 Getting Rich Quick – and Those Who Didn’t
‘Un Político Pobre es un Pobre Político’ (A Politician Who is Poor is a Poor Politician)
Figure 4.1. Number of parastatal enterprises in Mexico, 1930–1994
Table 4.1 NAFTA, European Union and China, 2006
Table 4.2 Main features of NAFTA members, 2006
‘A Guy of Absolute Unquestioned Integrity’
‘The Zapatistas Have to be Eliminated’
Figure 5.1 Governorship in Mexico by political party, 2011
Table 5.1 Composition of the Senate by political party, 1982–2006
Table 5.2 Composition of the Chamber of Deputies by political party,1988–2006
Figure 5.2 Number of votes by party in the presidential elections, 1988–2006
Table 5.3 GDP growth rates in selected Latin American countries,1980–2005
Figure 5.3 GDP growth by decades in Mexico, 1940–2010
Figure 5.4 Maquiladora and non-maquiladora jobs in Mexico, 1980–2006
‘We All Seem to Know This Except for the Authorities’
Figure 6.1 Number of homicides related to narcotrafficking in Mexico, 2006–2011
Violent Crime and Human Rights
Table 6.1 Government spending on security-related institutions
Table 6.2 List of the most wanted narcotraffickers in Mexico, with data of captures to November 2011
Table 6.3 Rise in crime, 2007 and 2010
Table 6.4 Seizures of arms in Mexico, 1994–2011
Strengthening Institutions of Justice?
Vetting the New Police Force
Figure 6.2 Territories controlled by crime organisations, 2011
Table 6.5 Number of deaths related to narcotrafficking in Mexico, by state, 2006–2011
7 Another Century of Drug War?