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Quest for Integrity: The Mexican-US Drug Issue in the 1980s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Reuter  and
David Ronfeldt
Peter Reuter
Affiliation:
Washington office of the RAND Corporation and Drug Policy Research Center
David Ronfeldt
Affiliation:
International Policy Department of the Rand Corporation
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The Flow of drugs from Mexico to the United States has been a source of trouble in US-Mexican relations for at least two decades. The dominant view in Mexico is that the problem arises from the inability of the United States to control its domestic demand for heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. The dominant US view has been that the Mexican government has failed to make effective efforts to control the supply of drugs. At times — in particular after the killing of Enrique Camarena, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in 1985 — US government anger at Mexico's alleged failure to maintain the integrity of its anti-drug efforts has been the dominant source of friction between the two nations.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 34 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Drug Trafficking Research Update , Fall 1992 , pp. 89 - 154
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Copyright © University of Miami 1992

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