New at Reason: Brian Doherty Interviews Sociologist Howard Campbell on the Juarez/El Paso Drug War Zone

November 6, 2009

The Mexican city of Juarez, on the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, has been suffering from wild waves of drug war-related violence in the past few years. Howard Campbell, a professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, just came out with a book, Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juarez that sheds light on the background of what he calls the "drug war zone" that binds Mexico and the United States.

Senior Editor Brian Doherty interviewed Campbell about how the drug war is destroying Mexico, and why it can never succeed in its ostensible goal of preventing the sale and possession of certain drugs.

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