Mexico's War on Drugs: No Margin for Maneuver

Jorge Chabat
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Jorge Chabat: Department of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2002, vol. 582, issue 1, 134-148

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1177/000271620258200110

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