How the ‘Mexican miracle’ kickstarted the modern US–Mexico drugs trade
- Written by Nathaniel Morris, Honourary Lecturer, Department of History, UCL
Conflicts between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, leading to violent social breakdown across the country.
The flow of cheap and deadly fentanyl over the border into the US has also fuelled an opioid epidemic that has killed over 1 million Americans since 2000. The epidemic has...