Episode 290: The Beast
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The Securitarian Mentality in Drug Trafficking
The idea of a cartel that we commonly employ to describe the phenomenon of drug trafficking is false and is politically motivated. The Securitarian Mentality, meaning the national security discourse that first US institutions started articulating in the sometime in the mid-70s permeated into Latin American culture. Over 400,000 killings since the militarization began in 2006 and over 100,000 forced disappearances. About half a million people killed or disappeared under the so-called drug war.
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