A review by bloom2642
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture by Oswaldo Zavala

2.5

This book spent a little too much time focusing on narco culture in popular media. However, the last three sections (juarez, the epilogue, and the english afterword) hit very hard. The continuous thread throughout the whole book being that the cartels aren’t these transnational organizations but actually a veil for the mexican state to gain access to natural resources in the regions where the narcos operate is a wild claim that I think the book does a fairly decent job of presenting with valid sources. 

A book I’ll have to read again and use as supplemental material when reading more on this topic.