Drug War Capitalism / by Dawn Paley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paley, Dawn, 1981-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug control--Economic aspects.

Drug control.

Drug traffic--Economic aspects.

Drug traffic.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

279 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA. : AK Press, 2014.

Summary:

The drug war is less about cocaine or marijuana than it is about social, economic, and territorial control, In Drug War Capitalism, Dawn Paley lays bare the mechanisms through which: state and corporate interests are advanced under the pretext of fighting drugs in Latin America. North of the Rio Grande, bank accounts and prison cells are filled to bursting, and billions are made in the arms trade. But the focus here is on the south, where territory is cleared for foreign direct investment and the extractive industries through policy changes linked to the drug war, and a accompanying mix of militarization and paramilitarization, The violence and forced displacement that results is experienced most acutely by poor and working people and migrants, commonly in resource rich or geographically strategic areas. Combining on-the-ground reporting with extensive research. Paley moves beyond the usual journalistic hand-wringing to show that there is no longer a clear distinction between drug cartels, the state forces supposedly fighting them, and the expansion of transnational capital. Her insights are necessary to any serious discussion of drug war policy, and indispensible to understanding the evolving architecture of social control in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Drug War Capitalism 11

Chapter 2 Defining the Drug War 39

Chapter 3 A Look South to Colombia 53

Chapter 4 Mexico's Drug War Reforms 83

Chapter 5 Plan Mexico and Militarization 109

Chapter 6 Mexico, Paramilitarization & the Drug War 139

Chapter 7 Drug War Capitalism in Guatemala 169

Chapter 8 Drug War Capitalism in Honduras 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1849351937

9781849351935

OCLC:

871789626