Letters and Politics

How The US-Mexican Drug War Inflamed The Violence & Increased Profits

 

Guest: Benjamin T. Smith  is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century politics, land, indigenous groups, Catholicism, journalism, violence and the war on drugs.  He is the author of several books including his latest, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade.