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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