Drug Traffic:  Books

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Donald E. Schulz, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: the United States, Mexico, and the agony of national security. Strategic Studies Institute, 1997.

Special report of the Army War College; includes bibliographical references. Military view of drug trafficking, control and implications on national security.

Available at UCSD.

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The Congress and Mexico, bordering on change: a report of the CSIS Congressional Study Group on Mexico. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1989.

Captures the late 1980s perspectives on border narcotics control.

Available at UCSD.

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Gabriela D. Lemus, Dancing with the devil: the politics of drug control in U.S.-Mexico Relations, 1980-1998. University of Miami, 1998.

Lemus’ Ph.D. thesis includes bibliographical references.

Available at UCSD, SDSU.

Cesar Augusto Osorio y Nieto, Delitos contra la salud [Crimes against health]. Mexico: Editorial Porrua, 2000.

Excellent overview in Spanish of the Mexican laws relating to drug trafficking and use, as well as the actual text of laws reprinted in this slim volume.

Available at the Legal Research Center, USD at KGF5703.O86 2000

Elaine Shannon, Desperados: Latin Drug lords, U.S. lawmen, and the war America can’t win. New York: Viking, 1988.

Available at the Copley Library, USD at HV5825.S449 1988

Guadalupe Gonzalez and Marta Tienda, eds., The Drug Connection in U.S.-Mexican relations. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1989.

Available at the Legal Research Center, USD at HV5840.M4 D78 1989

Bruce M. Bagley and William O. Walker III, eds., Drug Trafficking in the Americas. University of Miami, North-South Center, 1994.

Includes sections on various drug trafficking strategies in South American countries as well as Mexico; chapters on U.S.-Mexican relations and the U.S.-Mexican border drug control issues.

Available at the Copley Library, University of San Diego, at HV5825 .D77693 1994

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David Gelber, producer, Laundering drug money? [video]. New York:  CBS Video, 2000.

Discusses Operation Casablanca, an undercover investigation into the laundering of drug trafficking money in the U.S. and Mexico. The agent in charge of the operation believes the investigation was not continued because the Clinton Administration did not want to endanger commercial ties with Mexico.

Available at the Legal Research Center, USD at HV8079 .M64 L38 2000

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Mario Ruiz Massieu, El Marco juridico para el combate al narcotrafico [Judicial framework for combating drug trafficking]. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1994. [in Spanish]

Available at the Legal Research Center, USD at KGF 5703 .R35 1994.

Timothy J. Dunn, The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1992: low-intensity conflict doctrine comes home. University of Texas at Austin, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.

Available at the Legal Research Center, USD at F787 .D46 1996.

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Tamia L. Hope and Wilfrido Ruiz S., eds., The narcotics laws of Mexico and the United States of America. San Diego: Commission of the Californias, 1972.

Available at the Legal Research Center, USD at KF3890.A4 1972

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Jose Maria Ramos, Las Politicas antidrogas and comercial de Estados Unidos en la frontera con Mexico [The politics and business of the antidrug war of the United States on the Mexican border]. Tijuana: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 1995.

Available at SDSU and UCSD.

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John A. Price, The Recent Smuggling of Drugs From Tijuana. San Diego State College, 1969.

Interesting, not recent, and brief historical account by a local anthropologist on the border narcotics issue, created with a grant from the U.S. - Mexico Border Studies Project of the University of Notre Dame.

Available at UCSD, SDSU.

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Peter Rich Andreas, Sovereigns and smugglers: enforcing the U.S.-Mexico border in the age of economic integration. Cornell University [Ph. D. Thesis], 1999.

Available at SDSU, UCSD.

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Alonso Gomez-Robledo Verduzco, United States vs. Alvarez Machain: estudio introductivo y seleccion de documentos. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1993.

Available at the Legal Research Center, USD at JX4399. A48 1993

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