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3) The cobra
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English
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What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires,...
4) Why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it: a judicial indictment of the War on Drugs
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Publisher
Temple University Press
Language
English
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Lexile measure
1450L
Language
English
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Description
(Publisher-supplied data) The global drug trade and its associated violence, corruption, and human suffering create global problems that include political and military conflicts, ethnic minority human rights violations, and stresses on economic development. Drug production and eradication affects the stability of many states, shaping and sometimes distorting their foreign policies. External demand for drugs has transformed many indigenous cultures...
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Publisher
OR Books in partnership with Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The term 'Mexican Drug War' implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its...
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Series
Stockholm studies in child law and children's rights volume Volume 6
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Since President Calderón declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexicans have been murdered. Drug money is now Mexico's single largest source of income. Gibler travels across Mexico and slips behind the frontlines to talk with people who live in towns under assault on the lawless frontiers of the drug war.
12) Drug trafficking
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Presents a historical overview of drug trafficking and discusses its economic and legal aspects.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Reveals...