Drug War Capitalism (53 page)

Petroleos Mexicanos.
See
Pemex

petroleum industry.
See
oil industry

pharmaceutical industry, 45–46

pipelines, 12, 62–63, 75, 76, 181

Plan Colombia, 4–8 passim, 19–20, 25–32 passim, 37, 38, 54–62 passim, 70; Ba Tiul on, 191; Guatemala and, 189; Mexico and, 60

Plan Mexico.
See
Mérida Initiative

Poiré Romero, Alejandro, 103

police and policing, 35; Colombia, 56, 69, 70, 73; “double dipping” by, 28–29; killings by, 69; Guatemala, 175, 181, 191; Honduras, 185, 193, 209–10, 215; Mérida Initiative, 85, 86; Mexico, 28–29, 105, 111–25 passim, 130, 134–40 passim, 144, 148, 161, 167, 232n50; United States, 127–28; Venezuela, 105.
See also
community policing

The Political Economy of Narcotics
(Buxton), 40

Ponce, Marvin, 209

Pop Ac, Amilcar de Jesús, 176

Poppa, Terrence:
Drug Lord
, 119

poppy cultivation, 48, 57, 133, 135

Portugal, 40, 42

poverty: Honduras, 193, 201, 203, 206, 210–13 passim; Mexico, 42, 102

Powell, Colin, 93

PRD.
See
Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) (Mexico)

prisoners and imprisonment, 41–42; Colombia, 72; Honduras, 195, 196, 210; Mexico, 86, 103, 105, 116, 125–26; United States, 125

private security guards.
See
security guards

privatization, 8, 99; Colombia, 57, 73, 74, 75; Honduras, 208; Mexico, 22, 84, 86, 99, 115, 136

Prohibition (1920–33), 45, 50, 144

prohibition of drugs, 33, 49

Promoting Polyarchy
(Robinson), 24–25

protection rackets, 119, 144, 145, 161

protests: Guatemala, 101, 177; Honduras, 201, 204; Mexico, 133–34, 154, 155, 159, 160, 167.
See also
marches

Prudential Financial, 162

public opinion, Mexican, 26

Puebla, Mexico, 117

Purépecha people, 166–67

Putumayo, Colombia, 47–48, 70, 76, 77

Q

Quattro Exploration and Production, 183

queer people, violence against.
See
LGBTI people, violence against

Querétaro, Mexico, 94

Quintana, Victor, 113

R

racialization of drug war, 41

Rafael, Vicente L., 85

Ramírez, Trinidad, 166

Ramírez Cuellar, Francisco, 64–65, 66, 69, 222

RAND Corporation, 87, 116

rape, 161, 163, 187

Raudales Varela, Marta de Jesús, 206

Reagan, Ronald, 41, 116, 197

real estate business, 16, 162, 163

Recetor, Colombia, 54–55

refugees, internal.
See
internally displaced people (IDPs)

Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC) (Guerrero, Mexico), 137

Regional Training Command for Peacekeeping Operations (Guatemala).
See
CREOMPAZ

remittances from United States, 210

resistance and self-defense groups.
See
self-defense and resistance groups

resistance to construction projects, 171, 175, 177, 214

resistance to extractive industries, 154–60 passim, 166, 176, 177, 212

resource extraction.
See
extractive industries

retail industry, 16, 89

Reuter, Peter, 48

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
See
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)

Reyes Beltran, Maria Antonia, 11–12, 13

Reyes Salazar, Saul, 153–54

Reynosa, Mexico, 127, 130, 131, 144, 152

rich people, 73, 163, 202–4 passim

right of association.
See
freedom of association

Rios Montt, Efraín, 172–73

Rivas, Yoni, 215–16

Rivera, Diego, 257n2

Roa, Fernando, 14–15

Robinson, William I., 24–25, 33–34, 119, 147, 197, 199

Rodríguez, I., 221–22

Rodríguez Sánchez, Mauricio, 172

Roman Catholic Church.
See
Catholic Church

Román Morales, Luis Ignacio, 96

Romano, Silvina María, 38

Romillo, M., 221–22

Russell, Bertrand, 9

S

Salazar, Gustavo, 28

Salguero, Otto, 20, 180

Salinas de Gortari, Carlos, 22, 120, 131

Samayoa, Claudia, 176–77, 180

San Agustín, Mexico, 162

sanctions, 61

San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 8, 117, 153

San Miguel de Aquila, Mexico, 161

San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 193, 196, 202, 209, 210

Santo Domingo, Colombia, 11–15

Santos, Juan Manuel, 58, 187, 191, 221, 237n14

scandals, 58–59, 106–7, 163

School of the Americas, 173

Scott, Peter Dale, 50

security guards, 175, 176, 186, 215–16

self-defense and resistance groups: Colombia, 55, 61, 65–67 passim, 70, 79; Mexico, 136, 161, 166–68

Los Señores del Narco
(Hernández). See
Narcoland
(Hernández)

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 55, 75, 127

shale oil, 99, 153, 220

The Shock Doctrine
(Klein), 21

Sicilia, Javier, 17, 139–40

Sicilia Ortega, Juan Francisco, 139

Serra del Lacandón National Park.
See
Lacandón National Park, Guatemala

Silva, Gloria, 72

silver, 24, 101, 135, 154, 156

Simons, Geoffrey Leslie:
Colombia: A Brutal History
, 62–63

Sinaloa, Mexico, 26, 32, 46, 47, 147

Sinaloa Cartel, 28, 107, 119–21 passim, 133, 145, 162

Skye Resource, 175

Slim, Carlos, 107, 163

small business, 142–47, 200

Smith, Kline & French, 46

smugglers and smuggling, 47–49 passim

Solano, Luis, 173

Solís, Siria Letitia, 157

Solís Bustamante, Martin, 154, 155

Solís Contreras, Manuela, 154–58 passim

Solorio Urrutia, Ismael, 154–58 passim

Solway Investment Group, 175

Sonora, Mexico, 101

Sony, 23

Sota Mirafuentes, Alejandra, 131–32

Spain, 40, 44, 116, 169

special forces, Mexican.
See
GAFEs

spraying of crops (drug interdiction).
See
crop eradication (drug interdiction)

Standard Oil, 74

State Department, US.
See
US Department of State

Stokes, Doug, 19

Stratfor, 36, 233n71

Suasnávar, José Samuel, 171–72

Suazo, Miguel Enrique, 215

Suazo Córdova, Roberto, 197

subsidies, 101, 106, 155, 164

sugar and sugarcane, 44, 164, 171, 181

T

Tabasco, Mexico, 145, 148, 151, 177

Tamaulipas, Mexico, 4, 83, 131, 142–53 passim; city hall bombings, 83; corruption, 120, 232n50, 248n106; displacement of farmers, 163–64; militarization, 8, 118, 127; oil deposits, 153.
See also
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Reynosa, Mexico

taxation, 186, 204; Britain, 44; Honduras, 200, 204; Mexico, 86, 93, 95, 100–102 passim

teachers, Mexican, 94, 201

Técu Osorio, Jesús, 170, 171

Tecun Uman (Guatemala), 191

Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 195, 202–11 passim

Televisa, 107, 248n10