Episode notes
Chasing Ghosts is back!
There has been chatter and enthusiasm to use military means to take on the drugs and human trafficking organizations and cartels in Mexico (and I imagine the cartels in the north in Canada), this will not end well.
I examine the implications and the second and third order effects of this endeavor which is, by extension, a declaration of war on the Mexican government.
References:
Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
Anabel Hernandez Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers
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