Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Caldern to Enrique Pea Nieto

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Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Caldern to Enrique Pea Nieto examines the major trends in organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. The book provides an exhaustive analysis of drug-related violence in the country. This work highlights the transition from the Felipe Caldern administration to the Enrique Pea Nieto government, focusing on differences and continuities in counternarcotics policies as well as other trends such as violence and drug trafficking.

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The most comprehensive book on Mexicos contemporary security challenges and possible policy available. A wealth of information simplified into a brilliantly written work of scholarship. A must read. -- Hanna S. Kassab, Northern Michigan University
Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence is an excellent synthesis of the evaluation of organized crime related to drug trafficking and the war that President Caldern declared in 2006. The result was a significant increase in violence. Six years after the change in government Enrique Pea Nieto came to power and decided to try to change the strategy without success. The authors argue that within Mexico there are some states, in fact, that are failed states because the governments efforts to dismantle the drug cartels were not successful.The book is an excellent analysis for better understanding 10 years in which Mexico has applied the strategy of the war on drugs. -- Ral Benitez-Manaut, Center for Research on North America (UNAM)

Author Bio

Jonathan D. Rosen is a research scientist at Florida International Universitys Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. Roberto Zepeda is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones sobre Amrica del Norte at the Universidad Autnoma de Mxico.