Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

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 subter…

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