The Limits of Anti-Drug Policy in Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID5150677
AuthorsLuis Astorga (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume53
Issue169
Pages427-434
Publication date2001-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2451.00331
OpenAlexW2055904536
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The Mexican State's involvement in the fight against drugs has gone through several stages marked chiefly by legal and police action in keeping with the model of United States inspiration instituted in the early twentieth century. This paper seeks to show some of the limits to that model, built up in recent years by growing military participation, when the special history of the relationship between drug trafficking and the political authorities in a State party system is left out of account. There are also limits to the freedom of action of the President elected on 2 July 2000 and his government team, who do not belong to the State party, when it comes to determining the content and direction of anti-drug policy

Action (physics) · Criminology · Drug trafficking · Government (linguistics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Public Administration

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