History of Latin America
Cocaine and Other Commodities

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Final papers due no later than 4 p.m. Friday

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Drugs, guns, and crime

Drug addiction in 1920s Chicago

With Otto Pérez Molina in power, U.S. Marines are helping Guatemala fight the Zetas

Meanwhile, the Zetas (and some ex-Kaibiles) explore ways in which urban gangs can be useful

The Los Angeles Times' series on the Mexican drug wars. William Finnegan at The New Yorker is also excellent.

Legalization and decriminalization of drugs in Portugal, from Time magazine

Background paper on current counternarcotics approaches globally, from the Brookings Institute

São Paulo is halted by coordinated prison gangs in 2007

The favela City of God prepares for the Olympics with neighborhood policing in 2010

But it was the middle classes that protested spending on the World Cup and Olympics in 2013.