Narco Freedom history

Likewise, with the ratification of the 1917 Constitution, Mexico tried to terminate the distribution of drugs with strict bans on the production and importation of opiates, cocaine, and marijuana.

Before 1920, both countries had declared war on drugs.

He is a co-founder of the Radical History Review and author of the essay collection Mickey Mouse History (1996).

When the latter collapsed in 2009, leaving the Guerreros to their own devices, they took over the production and processing of opium paste (the base for making heroin), and shipped it directly to Chicago, secreted in commercial passenger buses.

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When she and her husband came to municipal power in 2012, it was María de los Angeles herself who, according to one of the gang’s leaders, became Iguala’s “key operator,” the organizer of the city’s dark side.

In May 2013, Abarca had turned them loose on local activist Arturo Hernández Cardona, who had led a demonstration in Iguala by aggrieved farmers and miners.

Boullosa and Wallace begin by recounting the events of 2014 that led to the horrific murder of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in the state of Guerrero.

A NARCO HISTORY excerpted in Truthdig (3/16/2015)