List of Illustrations
Chapter One. Writing Twentieth-Century Mexico’s Drug Histories
Wil G. Pansters and Benjamin T. Smith
Part I. The Emerging Prohibition Regime: Policies, Policing, and Popular Vices
Chapter Two. “Pressure-Response” and the Origins of Mexican Drug Prohibition, 1912–1920: A Reassessment
Isaac Campos
Chapter Three. Popular Vices and Revolutionary Restrictions: Drugs and Mexican Society, 1910–1920
Ricardo Pérez Montfort
Chapter Four. Drugs, Control, and Corruption: The Antinarcotics Police in Mexico City, 1920–1947
Nidia A. Olvera Hernández
Part II. Drug Trafficking, Social Relations, Political Protection, and Law Enforcement during the Mexican Miracle
Chapter Five. La Nacha, the Godmother of Border Trafficking: Transnational Drugs and Gendered Power in Ciudad Juárez, 1920–1960
Elaine Carey
Chapter Six. Highs and Lows: Drug Trafficking in Baja California, 1930–1960
Benjamin T. Smith and Wil G. Pansters
Chapter Seven. Policing the Drug Trade: U.S. Narcotic Agents in Mexico (1936–1963
Carlos Pérez Ricart
Chapter Eight. “Rayando la bola, cortando la rama”: The Production of Opium and Marijuana in Sinaloa (1940–ca. 1975
Juan Antonio Fernández Velázquez
Chapter Nine. With a Little Help from His Friends: Juan N. Guerra, Smuggling, and Drug Trafficking in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León, 1940s–1960s
Carlos Antonio Flores Pérez
Part III. Drug Trafficking, the Drug War, the Dirty War, and the Unintended Consequences
Chapter Ten. Caciques, Traffickers, and Soldiers: Drug Trafficking in the Cardenista Territory of Michoacán (1960–1970
Salvador Maldonado Aranda
Chapter Eleven. The War on Drugs, Counterinsurgency, and the State of Siege in the Golden Triangle (1977–1982
Adela Cedillo
Chapter Twelve. Grupo Sangre: Drugs, Death Squads, and the Dirty War Origins of Mexico’s Drug Wars
Alexander Aviña
Chapter Thirteen. Heroin, the Herreras, and the “Chicago Connection”: The Drug Trade in Durango, 1950–1985
Nathaniel Morris
Part IV. Conclusions
Chapter Fourteen. Drugs, Crime, and Violence in Modern Mexico
Alan Knight
List of Contributors
Index
