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Drug Cartels Do Not Exist
Oswaldo Zavala
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's incendiary comments and monstrous policies on the border revealed the character of a deeply depraved leader, state violence on both sides of the border is nothing new. Immigration has endured as a prevailing news topic, but it is a fixture of modern society in the neoliberal era; the future will be one of exile brought on by state violence and the plundering of our natural resources to sate capitalist greed.
Yet the realities of violence in Mexico and along the border are obscured by the books, films, and TV series we consume. In truth, works like
Sicario,
The Queen of the South, and
Narcos hide Mexico's political realities. Alongside these examples, Zavala discusses Charles Bowden,
2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and other important Latin American writers as examples of those who do capture the realities of the drug war.
Translated into English by William Savinar,
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist will be useful for journalists, political scientists, philosophers, and writers of any kind who wish to break down the constructed barriers—physical and mental—created by those in power around the reality of the Mexican drug trade.
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militarization, dispossession, PAN, US-Mexico border, narconovels, war against drugs, PRI, extractivism, state violence, Mexican literature, narcoseries, national security, Felipe Calderón, Enrique Peña Nieto, representation of violence, narcoterrorism, neoliberalism, Mexico’s drug war, narcoculture, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon