Physical Description:print vi, 310 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-295) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Drug trafficking--studies and sources relevant to the Mexican-American drug war zone -- La Nacha: the heroin queen of Juárez -- The roots of contraband smuggling in El Paso -- Female drug lord -- Community-based drug use, smuggling, and dealing in the 1970s and 1980s -- Selling drugs in downtown Juárez: Juan and Jorge -- A young smuggler and his family -- Blaxicans: the life of a Chicano smuggler and musician on the borderline of African American and Mexican American culture -- Drug addiction and drug trafficking in the life of an anarchist -- Drug smuggling through tunnels: the tale of a scuba-diving instructor -- Witness to a Juárez drug killing -- Ethnographic dimensions of law enforcement in the drug war zone -- Undercover agent on the Border: cultural disguises -- The death of Francisco -- A Juárez policeman fighting drug traffickers -- Journalism and drug trafficking: c overing the narco beat on the border -- Patrolling the drug war zone: a Border patrol agent in the war on drugs -- Intelligence and the drug war: commander of an antidrug task force on the border -- Excerpt from Weed: adventures of a dope smuggler, by Jerry Kamstra -- Agent on prohibition.
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