{"product_id":"9781529105698-dope","title":"The Dope","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover the secret history behind the headlines.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mexican drug wars have inspired countless articles, TV shows and movies. From \u003ci\u003eBreaking Bad\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eSicario\u003c\/i\u003e, El Chapo’s escapes to Trump’s tirades, this is a story we think we know. But there’s a hidden history to the biggest story of the twenty-first century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dope \u003c\/i\u003eexposes how an illicit industry that started with farmers, families and healers came to be dominated by cartels, kingpins and corruption. Benjamin T Smith traces an unforgettable cast of characters from the early twentieth century to the modern day, whose actions came to influence Mexico as we now know it. There’s Enrique Fernández, the borderlands trafficker who became Mexico’s first major narco and one of the first victims of the war on drugs; Eduardo ‘Lalo’ Fernández, Mexico’s most prominent heroin chemist and first major cocaine importer; Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, the brilliant doctor and Marxist who tried (and failed) to decriminalize Mexico’s drugs;  and Harry Anslinger, the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics whose sensationalist strategies paved the way for U.S. interference and the extraordinary levels of violence in Mexico today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dope \u003c\/i\u003eis the epic saga of how violence and corruption came to plague modern Mexico, and the first book to make sense of the political and economic big picture of the Mexican drug wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945433739361,"sku":"9781529105698","price":8.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32235326.jpg?v=1737102646","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529105698-dope","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}