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Feature: ONDCP Kicks Off Annual Summer Marijuana Scare Campaign With Report...
ONDCP TV ad ''flat'' Drug czar John Walters and his minions at the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) have kicked off the summer season with a report on teens, drugs, gangs, and violence....
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Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Snitch: Informants, Cooperators, and the...
When a Baltimore hustler clothing line manufacturer and barber named Rodney Bethea released a straight-to-DVD documentary about life on the mean streets of West Baltimore back in 2004 in a bid to...
View ArticleHeading Down Mexico Way
On Friday, once this week's Chronicle has been put to bed, I hop in the pick-up and head for Mexico for a month or so of on-the-scene reporting on the drug war south of the border. If all goes...
View ArticleAt the Shrine to San Malverde, Mexico's Narco-Saint
You don't find Culiacan, the capital city of Sinaloa, in the tourist guide books for some reason. But it is a thriving city of more than a million, and it is the home of one of the stranger...
View ArticleLatin America: Mexico's PRD May Call for Legalization
According to Mexican press reports this week, Mexico's Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD -- Democratic Revolution Party) is preparing to consider legalization of the drug trade as a response to...
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Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing...
Immortalized by the hit HBO series "The Wire," Baltimore's Eastern District is one tough neighborhood in one of the country's toughest towns. With some 45,000 residents, almost entirely black, it...
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Feature: Obama and Calderón Meet Amidst Rash of Dire Warnings on Mexican Drug...
President-elect Barack Obama met Monday with Mexican President Felipe Calderón to discuss bilateral issues of major importance for the two countries. In addition to NAFTA and immigration policy,...
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Latin America: Mexican Drug War Targets Informal Saints of the Poor and the...
Beware San Malverde! Watch out, Santa Muerte! The enemies of Mexico's violent and thriving illicit drug trade are after you. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported last weekend that Mexican authorities...
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Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the...
Phillip S. Smith, Writer Editor Howard Campbell's "Drug War Zone" couldn't be more timely. Ciudad Juárez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, is awash in blood as the competing Juárez and Sinaloa...
View ArticleLatin America: Mexico Proposes Banning Narcocorridos (Drug Ballads)
Los Tucanes de Tijuana performing "The People's Doctor." The good doctor who has the medicine to cure his patients' ills sends his "Greetings to all my patients in Texas and Colorado, and also Salt...
View ArticleChronicle Film Review: Prohibition
Prohibition: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (2011, Florentine Films/WETA, 3 discs, 5 ½ hrs., $41.99) One of America's leading documentarians has done it again. Ken Burns, producer of the widely...
View ArticleChronicle Review Essay: Mexico's Drug Cartels
Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars, by Sylvia Longmire (2011, Palgrave/Macmillan, 248 pp., $26.00 HB)El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, by Ioan Grillo (2011, Bloomsbury...
View ArticleA Thousand March for "El Chapo" in Culiacan
As many as a thousand people marched through the streets ofread more
View ArticleInterview with "The Cartel" Author Don Winslow [FEATURE]
This article was written in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here. Internationally acclaimed novelist Don Winslow's The Cartel, a hard-hitting and gut-wrenching tale of the Mexican drug...
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