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Book Synopsis
Gripping firsthand accounts of the drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border from drug traffickers and law enforcement officials.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Smuggling in the Drug War Zone
    • Introduction
    • 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 Borderlines 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. Law Enforcement in the Drug War Zone
    • Introduction
    • 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, by Jerry Kamstra
    • Agent against Prohibition
  • Epilogue and Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2009
      ISBN13: 9780292721791, 978-0292721791
      ISBN10: 029272179X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Gripping firsthand accounts of the drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border from drug traffickers and law enforcement officials.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
      • Part I. Smuggling in the Drug War Zone
        • Introduction
        • 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 Borderlines 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. Law Enforcement in the Drug War Zone
        • Introduction
        • 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, by Jerry Kamstra
        • Agent against Prohibition
      • Epilogue and Conclusion
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index

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