Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-261

  Watt, Peter ^a   Zepeda, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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