The Rise of Marijuana Trafficking Part II

In this episode, we cover Operation Condor: how it started, its intended goals, and how the operation quickly began targeting minority groups. We also veer into how the operation helped to reorganize the space in which trafficking groups continued operating.

Sources for this episode are:

• Underground Empire by James Mills

• CIA Assets and the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection by Jonathan Marshall

• Nuestra Historia Narcótica. Pasajes Para (Re)legalizar Las Drogas en México by Froylán Enciso

• NARCOLAND by Anabel Hernandez

• Operation Condor: Mexico’s Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era by Richard Craig.

• Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott and J. Marshall

• Operation Condor, The War on Drugs and Counterinsurgency in the Golden Triangle (1977–1983) by Adela Cedillo

• The Dope by Benjamin T. Smith

This episode was written by DEMOLER;

Post Production by Sharp Spoon Media

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