narcos

March 12, 2020
Vanessa Freije

It is very rare to have U.S. audience attention centered on Mexico. Unfortunately, Narcos Mexico squanders the opportunity. 

March 4, 2019
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Laura Weiss

The conviction of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera exemplifies the sensationalism of the U.S.-backed drug war, and will not change the ineffective strategies that fuel it.

September 22, 2017
Steven Cohen

In Season 3 of the hit Netflix series Narcos, a revisionist politics deepens as the show’s guiding narrative.

July 21, 2016
Alejandro Velasco and Joshua Frens-String

NACLA's editors introduce the latest print issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas - Currency of Death: Unraveling the Political Economy of the Drug Wars.

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