Drug war zone : frontline dispatches from the streets of El Paso and Juárez /
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| Author / Creator: | Campbell, Howard, 1957- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009. |
| Description: | vi, 310 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7846374 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I
- Introduction: 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
- Part II
- Introduction: 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: Covering 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
- Agent against Prohibition
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
