Here is Part One:

Ep 058 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One"

We continue the inquiry into the implications and future returns on going kinetic in the drug war as elucidated by worthies in the new administration.

I examine the implications and the second and third order effects of this endeavor which is, by extension, a declaration of war on the Mexican government.

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Anyone attending the Special Operations Forces Week festivities in Tampa on 5-8 May 2025?

If so, we should arrange a rendezvous.

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References:

Tom Wainwright Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

Anabel Hernandez Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

Ioan Grillo El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

David F. Marley Mexican Cartels: An Encyclopedia of Mexico's Crime and Drug Wars

Carmen Boullosa A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”

Patrick Winn Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA

Jesse Fink Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

Mark Santiago A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799

Amy S. Greenberg A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico

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