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In the late 1960s, the Mexican government launched a series of counternarcotics campaigns characterized by the militarization of drug production zones, particularly in the northwestern region-the so-called Golden Triangle, epicenter of both production and trafficking of marijuana and opium poppy since the 1930s. Ultimately, Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo and the 'Guadalajara cartel' inherited the priceless business and political connections of this international network, allowing them to enjoy a meteoric rise with protection from the Mexican state. Mexico thus became deeply integrated into a global drug supply chain, at the same time “modernizing” leaders such as President Alemán were opening Mexico up to international trade and capital. Customs and narcotics agents at East Coast ports and the Canadian border. However, almost from the start, French Corsican and Sicilian traffickers used Mexico as a transit country to evade U.S. crime organizations shifted their source of supply from Mexico to Europe, where more advanced chemists converted Turkish opium and morphine base into prized white heroin.

organized figures, and their prominent “legitimate” business partners in businesses such as racing, gambling, and the cross-border narcotics trade. It opens with a brief review of Mexico’s early development as a supplier of both narcotics and alcohol following the passage of prohibition laws in the United States. This paper aims to fill some of the glaring gaps in the history of Mexico’s pre-cartel drug trade by viewing it as part of an international system connecting European and Latin suppliers with North American organized crime syndicates.

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