Capital’s casualties

Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico, Alke Jenss, 2023, Rowman and Littlefield

There is no doubt that neoliberal policymaking was intimately associated with the nightmarish violence perpetrated against the populations of both Colombia and Mexico during the “war on drugs”.

Indeed, there is probably a close correlation between the expansion of drug-trafficking itself …

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Categories: Colombia, Mexico, North America, South America, United States

Gavin O'Toole

I've spent much of my career in journalism and newspaper production: worked as a sub-editor and in other production roles at major UK newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph. Covering business, finance, regulation, Latin American affairs and more. As a journalist and freelance writer I've contributed to many publications: work appears in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Public Finance, Global Government Forum, among others. Also an an award-winning writer of short stories and novelist. 

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