Operation Condor

Mexico's Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era

Bibliographic Data

ID4547783
AuthorsRichard Craig (Kent State University, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume22
Issue3
Pages345-363
Publication date1980-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/165493
OpenAlexW2782960372
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited1

In recent years Mexico has demonstrated the capacity to cultivate, process, ship, and transship vast quantities of illegal narcotic drugs. Such activity has traditionally been geared to the realities of domestic poverty, enormous profit, and American demand. Mexican marijuana dominated the U.S. market until quite recently. More importantly from the American viewpoint were the tons of Mexican heroin which saturated U.S. cities in the mid-1970s. Furthermore, Mexico is still the source of vast quantities of psychotropics and an increasingly popular conduit for South American cocaine.According to Craig (1978), U.S. officials long sought to convince their Mexican counterparts that the key to any effective antidrug program lay in eliminating the illicit product at the source. Until such time that herbicides were applied on a massive scale against marijuana and opium poppies, they argued, the annual Mexican campaign would prove an exercise in futility

Criminology · Development economics · Drug trafficking · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Heroin · Mexico city · Opium · Political economy · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History · Law · Psychology

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