Drug War Mexico :Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

Publication series :1

Author: Watt   Peter;Zepeda   Roberto  

Publisher: Zed Books‎

Publication year: 2012

E-ISBN: 9781848138889

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781848138865

Subject: C91 Sociology;F7 Trade Economy

Keyword: 贸易经济,社会学

Language: ENG

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In this controversial book, Watt and Zepeda contend that the failing war on drugs in Mexico, launched by president Felipe Calerón and funded by US military aid, is in fact a pretext for a US-backed strategy to bolster unpopular neoliberal policies, a weak yet authoritarian government, and a radically unfair status quo.

Chapter

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

Map

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

The Cold War Period

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’

Traffickers and the PRI

Consumption in Mexico

The Economy, Free Trade, the Washington Consensus and the Cartels

US Involvement in Mexico

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

NAFTA

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’

5 El Cambio (The Change)

Democratisation

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

Economic Factors

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

Unemployment

‘We All Seem to Know This Except for the Authorities’

6 War is Peace

Figure 6.1 Number of homicides related to narcotrafficking in Mexico, 2006–2011

‘A Danger for Mexico’

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

The Mérida Initiative

Table 6.4 Seizures of arms in Mexico, 1994–2011

Colombianización

Strengthening Institutions of Justice?

Vetting the New Police Force

Criminalising Dissent

‘Armouring NAFTA’

Money Laundering

The Favoured Cartel

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?

Bibliography

Index

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