Cartels, Corruption, Carnage, and Cooperation by William Martin, Chris Bronk - HTML preview

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Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

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Chapter 4

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2 Stanley A. Pimentel uses -elite-exploitative,. which he attributes to Peter Lupsha, in -The Nexus of Organized Crime and Politics in Mexico,. John Bailey and Roy Godson, Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the US-Mexican Borderlands (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000) Chapter 2.

3 Tracy Wilkinson, -In Sinaloa, the drug trade has infiltrated `every corner of life, . ' Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2008. Unless otherwise noted, all Los Angeles Times articles cited herein are part of an extensive and continuing reportorial series, -Mexico under siege– The drug war at our doorstep,. and can be accessed by date at http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug- war/#/its-a-war.

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2 U.S. Department of Transportation, -2008-Border Crossing Data,. news release, April 17, 2009.

Chapter 6

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2 Los Angeles Times, -Mexico under siege,. July 1, 2010. Based on data gathered by Mexican newspaper Agencia Reforma, with generally agreed upon additions to its figure of 22,700.

3 66,000 arrests, see -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2009; $20 billion in drugs, Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2008.

4 The Fund for Peace publishes an annual -Failed States Index,. using 12 criteria. In its 2009 report, it places Mexico 98th in a list of 177 countries, ranked from most likely to least in danger of failing. Countries seen as more vulnerable include Egypt, Israel, Russia, and Venezuela.

5 Car bomb in Ciuadad Juárez, see Tracy Wilkinson, -Mexico cartel kills four in car bombing,. Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2010.

6 $450,000 payo8s, see -Levels of Prohibition: A Toker's Guide,. The Economist, March 15, 2009; -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2008.

7 $2 million, see -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, July 21, 2009.

8 Escape from Zacatecas prison, see -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2009.

9 Michoacan mayors, see -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2009.

10 Mark Stevenson, -Mexican drug cartel inmates let out of prison,. The Globe and Mail, July 26, 2010.

11 Ken Ellingwood, -Cancun mayor's arrest adds to Mexico worries,. Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2010.

12 Archbishop, -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, April 4, 2009.

13 Tracy Wilkinson and Ken Ellingwood, -In Mexico's drug battle, the public is missing in action,. Los December 30, 2009. Angeles Times,

14 57 2009. reporters killed, see Tracy Wilkinson, -Mexico crime reporters face deadly perils,. Los Angeles Times, December 29,

15-Weddings,. see -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, June 11, 2008.

16 Randal Archibold, -Mexico paper, a drug war victim, calls for a voice,. New York Times, September 20, 2010.

17 Randal C. Archibold, -Hired by customs, but working for Mexican cartels,. New York Times, December 17, 2009.

18 Army abuses, see -Report to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington,. Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2008. See also -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2009. Also, Amnesty International report, see Tracy Wilkinson, -Rights group faults Mexico over alleged army abuse,. Los Angeles Times, December 9, 2009.

19 Frank Koughan, -U.S. Trained Death Squads?. Mother Jones, July-August 2009.

20-Good wages,. see -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2008.

21 Zepeda, -A Toker's Guide,. The Economist, March 5, 2009.

22 Army coup d'etat, see -Is the Mexican army the biggest cartel of all?. The Seminal, August 10, 2009; Cf. Charles Bowden, -We Bring Fear,. Mother Jones, July 2009.

23 Roderic Ai Camp, -Drugs, guns and money: A violent struggle across the border,. San Diego Tribune, March 15, 2009; 2009 Milenio Poll, see Ken Ellingwood, -12 slain in Mexico were federal police officers,. Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2009.

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Chapter 7

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2 Colleen W. Cook, -Mexico's Drug Cartels. (CRS report for Congress, October 16, 2007).

3 Cartel communications system, see Dane Schiller and Susan Carroll, -Former Gulf cartel insider spills his high-tech secrets,. Houston Chronicle, August 8, 2009.

4  Cárdenas trial, see U.S. Department of Justice, -Cárdenas-Guillen sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment,. news release, February 24, 2010.

5 Grayson, quoted in Ken Ellingwood, -Mexico's capture of accused drug lord may yield inside cartel information,. Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2010.

6 Napolitano, -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2009.

7 Payan, Tony, -The Drug War and the U.S.-Mexico Border: The State of Affairs,. South Atlantic Quarterly 105, no. 4 (Fall 2006) 13.

8 Calderón, -Mexico under siege,. Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2009.

9 Latin American Commission, -Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift,. (statement by the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, Open Society Institute, February 2009) 12.

10 U.S. -insatiable demand,. see Mark Landler, -Clinton says U.S. feeds Mexico drug trade,. New York Times, March 25, 2009.

11 Castaneda's suggestions, see Jorge Castaneda, -What's Spanish for Quagmire: Five Myths That Caused the Failed War Next Door,. Foreign Policy, January-February 2010.

12 Accommodation would undercut confidence in rule of law. See, for example, Bonner, -The New Cocaine Cowboys,. Foreign Affairs, July-August 2010, 47.

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Chapter 8

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2 Perhaps attack one cartel at a time. For elaboration of this idea, see Bonner, -The New Cocaine Cowboys,. 43f

3 Hillary Clinton's 2010 visit, see Ken Ellingwood, -U.S. pledges more help in Mexico drug war,. Los Angeles.. Times, March 23, 2010

4 The quotation, slightly altered, is from a PBS Frontline website and is based on C. Peter Rydell and Susan S. Everingham, Controlling Cocaine: Supply Versus Demand Programs, RAND 1994, p. xvi. For the study itself, see http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR331/. 

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