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Drug Cartels Do Not Exist Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture (Critical Mexican Studies)

Oswaldo Zavala

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. Immigration has endured as a...

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The Tucker Carlson Show

The book was cited as an academic work arguing that the conventional notion of Mexican drug cartels is a myth and that the drug trade functions more as a market than as organized cartels.

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In fact, there's a recent book. It's an academic book. It's not the easiest to read, but I think it has an important thesis. It's by a Mexican academic named Oswaldo Zavala. And it's called Drug Carte...

— Episode: Seth Harp Exposes the Murder & Drug Traf...

Episode: Seth Harp Exposes the Murder & Drug Trafficking Ta...

The book was cited as an academic work arguing that the conventional notion of Mexican drug cartels is a myth and that the drug trade functions more as a market than as organized cartels.

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In fact, there's a recent book. It's an academic book. It's not the easiest to read, but I think it has an important thesis. It's by a Mexican academic named Oswaldo Zavala. And it's called Drug Cartels Do Not Exist.

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