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Oxford UP The Politics Of Drug Violence by Duran-Martinez
Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the result of brutality. Rather, they stem from structural conditions that
vary from country to country and from era to era. In The Politics of Drug Violence, Angelica Duran-Martinez shows how variation in drug violence results from the complex relationship between state power and criminal competition.