History of Latin America
Cocaine and Other Commodities
Lecture outline
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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.