“Drug War Capitalism,” by Dawn Paley, AK Press, 2014
The book primarily covers Mexico & Colombia, but also includes chapters about Guatemala & Honduras. Specifically, how drug war militarization in each country is, for all intents and purposes, cover for social cleansing and clearing swaths of land for resource extraction
Lots of people have been discussing/recommending Oswaldo Zavala’s terrific book, “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture,” including @jkultra23, @The_Wub_, @ElParece, etc...
Allow me to piggyback off their good reading taste, and the great work of the book’s author, by doing a little thread on its themes…
“Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture,” by Oswaldo Zavala, 2018, Malpaso Editorial, English translation published 2022, Vanderbilt University Press. Translated by William Savinar.
Heroin, the French, Christian David, the Ben Barka affair, networks of fascist assassins, the orchestrated shift from Marseilles (Corsican) to SE Asian and Mexican (mafia) heroin in the 1970s, Richard Nixon, and the DEA.
The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism - Henrik Kruger. Trine Day, 1980, 2015, Translation and update co-authored by Jerry Meldon, Foreword by Peter Dale Scott.
This book covers a lot of topics in its 300 pages. It begins by zooming in on Christian David, aka “le Beau Serge,” born in Bordeaux, France in 1929:
Luke Woodham kills his mother, drives to school, kills two girls and wounds 7 others, and is stopped because his principal grabbed a pistol from his truck and held him at gunpoint until the authorities arrived.
Woodham had given a message explaining his actions to a friend, Justin Sledge. A week later Sledge and 5 others were arrested for allegedly conspiring with Woodham. Some of the boys had been in a Satanist group called "The Kroth."