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Meeting the demands for justice of victims as state policy is in the interest of Mexico, as it would expose the global inequalities of the global prohibition regime of drugs with a view towards the revision of the “Political Declaration... more
Meeting the demands for justice of victims as state policy is in the interest of Mexico, as it would expose the global inequalities of the global prohibition regime of drugs with a view towards the revision of the “Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem”, in 2019. To support this argument, you will find here: 1) an analysis of the origins and development of the global regime for the prohibition of drugs promoted by United Nations in the 20th Century; 2) an interpretation of the Mexican history of drug poli- cies from the 17th century to the present day, taking as analytic framework the recognition of rights to users of marijuana and peyote by the Mexican justice system; and 3) the proposal to strengthen the notion of “social harm” by incorporating studies of violations of human rights, processes of victim- ization and social costs of drug policies as a whole, a complex phenomenon whose study can reveal the unequal relations between countries imposed by the global drug prohibition regime.
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Colección de pasajes clave y poco conocidos de nuestra singular historia con las drogas que se remonta a su fundamento como milagros farmacéuticos. Por medio de una treintena de textos narrativos, Froylán Enciso nos introduce en el origen... more
Colección de pasajes clave y poco conocidos de nuestra singular historia con las drogas que se remonta a su fundamento como milagros farmacéuticos. Por medio de una treintena de textos narrativos, Froylán Enciso nos introduce en el origen del tráfico de sustancias prohibidas en el México de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, donde se enlazan personajes tan disímiles como los químicos alemanes que inventaron la cocaína, los médicos ingleses que patentaron la heroína, soldados revolucionarios, migrantes chinos adictos al opio o niños fresas de la ciudad de México que fumaban marihuana en ridículos rituales clasistas.

En el fondo, ilustra también el fracaso de la guerra contra las drogas como consecuencia de la corrupción y la violencia, mediante pasajes de la vida política de Sinaloa, las redes internacionales de contrabando auspiciadas por el gobierno de Echeverría, la misteriosa incursión de un Azcárraga Milmo en el narco, el resentimiento por abusos en el rancho de infancia del Chapo Guzmán, entre otras historias que ponen al descubierto la fuente de la narcopolítica y la incapacidad de la élite mexicana para lidiar con la narcocultura popular.
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Libro sobre la labor burocrática de Octavio Paz. Son de interés los análisis de la formación política del nóbel.
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Drugs, international politics, criminal strategies, corruption and violence during the so-called Mexican transition to democracy.

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Prologue to a history of the Sinaloa Cartel
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Crítica cualitativa de las estadísticas de violencia relacionada al contrabando de drogas en México
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Análisis de las narrativas más frecuente sobre el origen del narcotráfico en México
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Historiography of drugs and narcotics trafficking in Mexico.
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Mexican drugs history, in the 1970s.
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Scholarship on the drug trade shares points of convergence with work on mobilities studies and transport history, particularly in the study of the production, commerce, and consumption of licit and illicit drugs in spatial and... more
Scholarship on the drug trade shares points of convergence with work on mobilities studies and transport history, particularly in the study of the production, commerce, and consumption of licit and illicit drugs in spatial and geographical context. The visibility of the connections between drugs studies and mobility and transport history has become more evident very recently, in part, because of the novelty of both areas of study. The authors identify literature intended to offer a bridge and foster a discussion among specialists in these distinct fields. Literature on the drug trade has intersected with themes familiar to scholars of mobility studies and transport history in work examining the infrastructure of distribution networks built around the production, sale, and consumption of drugs. 1 These interconnections are notable in studies of commodity chains, border flows, international trade, and state regulation. We propose 'drug mobilities' as a point of convergence for thinking about and discussing research themes that emphasise analysis of the production, commerce, and consumption of
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