Women drug traffickers : mules, bosses, and organized crime / Elaine Carey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Elaine, 1967- author.

Series:

Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Diálogos series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug dealers--Mexico--History--20th century.

Drug dealers.

Female offenders--Mexico--History--20th century.

Female offenders.

Drug traffic--Mexico--History--20th century.

Drug traffic.

Drug abuse and crime--Mexico--History--20th century.

Drug abuse and crime.

History.

Mexico.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque [New Mexico] : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

Summary:

In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key but rarely acknowledged roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers. Using international diplomatic documents, trial transcripts, medical and public welfare studies, correspondence between drug czars, and prison and hospital records as research the author brings to life women drug smugglers in the early twentieth century as well as the cartel queens who make news today.

Contents:

Selling is more of a habit : women and drug trafficking, 1900-1980

Foreign vices : drugs, modernity, and gender

Mules, smugglers, and peddlers : the illicit trade in Mexico, 1910s-1930s

The white lady of Mexico City : lola la chata and the remaking of narcotics

Transcending borders : la nacha and the "notorious" women of the north

The women who made it snow : cold, dirty, drug wars, 1970s

Gangsters, narcs, and women : a secret history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826351982

0826351980

OCLC:

871820496