Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez

Contents
Introduction
PART ONE. Smuggling in the Drug War Zone
	Introduction: Drug Trafficking -- Studies and Sources Relevant to the Mexican-American Drug War Zone
	La Nacha: The Heroin Queen of Juárez
	The Roots of Contraband Smuggling in El Paso
	Female Drug Lord
	Community-Based Drug Use, Smuggling, and Dealing in the 1970s and 1980s
	Selling Drugs in Downtown Juárez: Juan and Jorge
	A Young Smuggler and His Family
	Blaxicans: The Life of a Chicano Smuggler and Musician on the Borderline of African American and Mexican American Culture
	Drug Addiction and Drug Trafficking in the Life of an Anarchist
	Drug Smuggling through Tunnels: The Tale of a Scuba-Diving Instructor
	Witness to a Juárez Drug Killing
Photo Insert
PART TWO. Law Enforcement in the Drug War Zone
	Introduction: Ethnographic Dimensions of Law Enforcement in the Drug War Zone
	Undercover Agent on the Border: Cultural Disguises
	The Death of Francisco
	A Juárez Policeman Fighting Drug Traffickers
	Journalism and Drug Trafficking: Covering the Narco Beat on the Border
	Patrolling the Drug War Zone: A Border Patrol Agent in the War on Drugs
	Intelligence and the Drug War: Commander of an Antidrug Task Force on the Border
	Excerpt from Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler, by Jerry Kamstra
	Agent against Prohibition
Epilogue and Conclusion
Notes
References
Index