Drug War Capitalism (54 page)
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Authors: Dawn Paley
Tepalcatepec, Mexico, 165
Ternium, 161
Texaco, 48, 74
Texas, 128, 153
Texas-Mexico border, 109–14 passim, 127, 128
theft of coal and iron ore, 160
Tijuana, Mexico, 28, 29, 130
Time
, 97
tobacco, 43–44
Torres Rivas, Edelberto, 196
torture, 65, 66, 105, 116, 122, 151, 172, 198, 204
tourism, 179, 183, 199
tourists, kidnap and rape of, 163
trafficking in humans.
See
human trafficking
trains, migrants use of, 149–50
transgender, bisexual, and gay people, violence against.
See
LGBTI people, violence against
transnational and multinational corporations.
See
multinational and transnational corporations
Trans-Pacific Partnership, 90
Treviño-Morales, Miguel, 49
trials, genocide, 172–73
Twitter, 233n66
U
UDEFEGUA, 176
Undoing Border Imperialism
(Walia), 128–29
unions, 64, 65, 69, 74–75, 152
United Fruit Company, 196, 257n2
United Kingdom.
See
Great Britain
United Nations, 42, 177, 211
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
See
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)
Uribe, Álvaro, 58, 59, 61, 73–74, 77, 78, 173
Uribe, María Victoria, 63
Uribe Chacon, Alejandro, 68
Uruguay, 42
USAID, 73, 89–93 passim, 103–4, 196, 199
US aid: to Colombia, 15, 56–57, 58, 62, 76, 87, 89, 140; to El Salvador, 197; to Haiti, 89; to Honduras, 194–200 passim, 217; to Mexico, 2, 86–87, 89, 115–17.
See also
Mérida Initiative; Plan Colombia
US Air Force, 258n14
US Army Special Forces, 19, 75
US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), 120, 128
US-Colombia Action Plan on Regional Security Cooperation, 80
US-Colombia free trade agreement, 59, 79–80
US Customs and Border Protection, 50, 128
US Department of Defense, 87, 89, 116, 186, 188, 194.
See also
Western Hemisphere Defense Policy Statement
US Department of Homeland Security, 89, 115, 127
US Department of State, 48, 71–72, 80, 84, 91, 104, 198, 217
US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 37–42 passim, 47, 115, 120, 144, 189, 212
US-Guatemala relations, 184–92 passim
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 128
US imports, 90, 95, 106, 199–200
US Marines, 27, 184–90 passim, 195
US-Mexico border and region, 4, 23, 34, 99, 126–29, 220; crossings, 106, 145, 162.
See also
Texas-Mexico border
US military, 27, 57, 75; bases, 27, 78, 208, 217.
See also
US Air Force; US Army Special Forces; US Marines; US Navy; US Northern Command; US Southern Command; US Special Operations Command
US Navy, 186, 188, 189
US Northern Command, 50, 188
US Prohibition.
See
Prohibition (1920–33)
US Southern Command, 50, 80, 185, 188, 217
US Special Operations Command, 216
US training of Latin American police and military, 115–17, 144, 188–89, 196, 253–54n11
V
Váldez Jimenez, Dante, 132–34 passim
Valencia, Guillermo, 165
Valle de Juárez.
See
Juárez Valley
Vallejo, Fausto, 165
Vancouver, British Columbia, 42
Vásquez, Bernardo, 158–59
Veloza García, Éver, 67
Venezuela, 27, 100, 101, 105, 202
Veracruz, Mexico, 118, 126, 145, 148, 149–50
Vianovo, 97–98
Videgaray, Luis, 95
Vietnam, 40, 90, 188
Villeda Morales, Ramón, 196
violence against LGBTI people.
See
LGBTI people, violence against
violence against women.
See
femicide; rape
Viviescas, Nikolai, 70
W
Walia, Harsha:
Undoing Border Imperialism
, 128–29
Walker, William O., III, 56
Wallerstein, Immanuel, 220–21
Walmart, 16, 107
“war on drugs” (term), 29–30, 39, 43
Washington, D. C., black incarceration rate in, 41
waste disposal, 153–54
Watt, Peter, 47, 49
Weissman, Deborah M., 104–5
Western Hemisphere Defense Policy Statement, 184
Wikileaks, 115, 144, 233n71
Wildlife Conservation Society, 183
Wolf, Greg, 186
women, killing of.
See
femicide
Women’s Coordinating Network (RMM) (Mexico), 112
World Bank, 104, 115, 171, 199, 200
Wright, Melissa, 113
Y
Yarrington Ruvalcaba, Tomás, 248n106
Ydígoras Fuentes, José Miguel, 187
Z
Z-40.
See
Treviño-Morales, Miguel
Zacatecas, Mexico, 101
Zambada García, Ismael (“El Mayo”) 121, 134
Zapata’s Revenge
(Barry), 22
Zapatistas, 25, 144
Zaragoza, Ignacio, 117
Zavala, Daniel, 13
Zelaya Rosales, Manuel, 201–5 passim
Zepeda, Roberto, 49;
Drug War Mexico
, 47
Zetas (paramilitary group), 17, 20, 28, 31, 49, 120, 143–52 passim, 232n50; coal theft, 160; Guatemala, 28, 180–81, 190, 191, 232n49; Kaibiles in, 120; origin, 120, 144; use of abandoned farmland, 164
Zibechi, Raúl, 18
Drug War Capitalism
© 2014 Dawn Paley
Foreword
© 2014 Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
This edition © 2014 AK Press (Oakland, Edinburgh, Baltimore).
ISBN: 978-1-84935-193-5 | eBook ISBN: 978-1-84935-188-1
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Drug War Capitalism
Chapter 2: Defining The Drug War
Chapter 3: A Look South To Colombia
Chapter 4: Mexico’s Drug War Reforms
Chapter 5: Plan Mexico And Militarization
Chapter 6: Mexico, Paramilitarization & The Drug War
Chapter 7: Drug War Capitalism In Guatemala
Chapter 8: Drug War Capitalism In Honduras
Conclusion: Thinking Through Peace In Wartime
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