Chicano Studies

Efforts to eradicate drug production and distribution from the part of Mexican authorities can be traced back to 1947, whereas a plan to combat the war on drugs by the U. S. government along the U. S. – Mexico border region was officially promulgated in 1968 by the Nixon administration. Using the U. S. – Mexico borderlands as a case study, provide a transnational analysis of the historical origins of the War on Drugs, as well as its use as a political tool.