The Dope av Benjamin T Smith

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<p><b>Discover the secret history behind the headlines.</b><br><br>The Mexican drug wars have inspired countless articles, TV shows and movies. From <i>Breaking Bad</i> to <i>Sicario</i>, 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. <br><br><i>The Dope </i>exposes 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 Fern¿ez, the borderlands trafficker who became Mexico¿s first major narco and one of the first victims of the war on drugs; Eduardo ¿Lalo¿ Fern¿ez, Mexico¿s most prominent heroin chemist and first major cocaine importer; Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, the brilliant doctor and Marxist who tried (and failed) to decri