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Mexico’s Long Dirty War

The origins of Mexico’s drug wars can be found in the Mexican state’s decades-long attack on popular movements advocating for social and economic justice.

Alexander AviñaView further author information
Pages 144-149 | Published online: 11 Jul 2016
 
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1 The three officers who cut their counterinsurgent teeth in 1970s Guerrero— Acosta Chaparro, Quiroz Hermosillo, and Barquín—would be arrested in 2000 and convicted in military court in 2002 for narco-trafficking charges related to their involvement with the Ciudad Juárez cartel. Quiroz Hermosillo would die in prison while Acosta Chaparro was controversially exonerated and released in 2006.

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Alexander Aviña

Alexander Aviña is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. He is the author of the award-winning Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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