Mexico's Drug War: Not Another Colombia

[2] According to dictionary.com, corporative relates to “of or pertaining to a political system under which the principal economic functions, as banking, industry, or labor, are organized as corporate unities.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/corporative

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[i] David Rieff, “Who’s Winning the War for Mexico,” The Wall Street Journal, December 4^th, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989004575652784260546668.html

[ii] “Mexico casino arson attack kills dozens in Monterrey,” BBC, August 26, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14674706

[iii] José A. Ortega, “Cd. Juárez, por segundo año consecutivo, la ciudad más violenta del mundo,” Seguridad, Justicia y Paz, January 11, 2011, http://seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/sala-de-prensa/58-cd-juarez-por-segundo-ano-consecutivo-la-ciudad-mas-violenta-del-mundo

[iv] World Bank Data by GINI index, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator

[v] Lisa Haugaard, Adam Isaacson and Jennifer Johnson, “A Cautionary Tale: Plan Colombia’s Lessons for U.S. Policy Toward Mexico and Beyond,” WOLA, November 2011, 4

[vi] Nazih Richani, “The Political Economy of Violence: The War System in Colombia,” Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 2, pages 37–81, April 1997

[vii] Robert C. Bonner, "The New Cocaine Cowboys," Foreign Affairs, July/Aug 2010, 46

[viii] Fernando Escalante, “Puede México ser Colombia? Violencia, narcotráfico y Estado,” Nueva Sociedad, No. 220, March/April 2009, 96

[ix] Fernando Escalante, “Puede México ser Colombia? Violencia, narcotráfico y Estado,” Nueva Sociedad, No. 220, March/April 2009, 92

[x] Malcolm Beith, “Colombia is no Lesson For Mexico (Part I),” InSight Crime, November 28, 2011, http://www.insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/1899-colombia-is-no-lesson-for-mexico-part-i

[xi] Ibid.

[xii] Ibid.

[xiii] Elaine Shannon Washington, “New Kings of Coke,” Time Magazine, June 24, 2001, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,157350,00.html

[xiv] Lisa Haugaard, Adam Isaacson and Jennifer Johnson, “A Cautionary Tale: Plan Colombia’s Lessons for U.S. Policy Toward Mexico and Beyond,” WOLA, November 2011, 12

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