Ouroboros in the new age…
There has been chatter and enthusiasm to use military means to take on the drugs and human trafficking organizations and cartels in Mexico (and I imagine the cartels in the north in Canada), this will not end well.
I examine the implications and the second and third order effects of this endeavor which is, by extension, a declaration of war on the Mexican government.
References:
Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
Anabel Hernandez Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers
Ioan Grillo El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency
David F. Marley Mexican Cartels: An Encyclopedia of Mexico’s Crime and Drug Wars
Carmen Boullosa A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”
Patrick Winn Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
Jesse Fink Pure Narco: One Man’s True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels
Mark Santiago A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799
Amy S. Greenberg A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
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