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Mexico's War on Drugs: No Margin for Maneuver

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  • Jorge Chabat

    (Department of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City)

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Illegal drugs threaten the Mexican governance because of the corruption they generate. The Mexican government has been fighting this threat for years in a context of institutional weakness and strong pressures from the United States. The fact that Mexico is a natural supplier of illegal drugs to the biggest market in the world, the United States, puts the Mexican government in a very complex situation with no alternatives other than to continue fighting drugs with very limited institutional and human resources. In this process, Mexico has no margin for maneuver to change the parameters of the war on drugs.

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  • Jorge Chabat, 2002. "Mexico's War on Drugs: No Margin for Maneuver," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 582(1), pages 134-148, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:582:y:2002:i:1:p:134-148
    DOI: 10.1177/000271620258200110
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    1. Julian‐Ferdinand Vögele & Fabian Reck & Jarko Fidrmuc, 2024. "The Drug War and Regional Social Capital in Mexico," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(2), pages 990-1006, March.
    2. Robert MacCoun & Peter Reuter, 2002. "PREFACE The Varieties of Drug Control at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 582(1), pages 7-19, July.

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