Benjamin T. Smith is one of the foremost historians of modern Mexico. He is a professor in modern Latin American history at the University of Warwick, and was Associate Professor of Mexican History at Michigan State University. His previous books have explored politics, violence, Catholicism and journalism in modern Mexico. Benjamin has written widely on Mexico for the Guardian, The Jacobin, and Dissent and has appeared on Sky TV, BBC Radio, Channel 4 News and France24. He also provides expert witness accounts for Mexican asylum seekers escaping gang violence.
Magisterial and immensely readable... True crime at its historical
best, replete with all the larger-than-life characters and thrills
and spills of a Netflixnarco drama
*Financial Times*
With the skills of a fine historian and the verve of a true
storyteller Benjamin T. Smith unearths the twisted roots of the
catastrophic drug war. A fascinating, surreal and tragic tale
*Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco and Blood Gun Money*
A compelling narrative that at last gives us a history-for-all of
Mexico's all-out drug war
*Ed Vulliamy, author of Amexica: War Along the Borderline*
Smith's depth of knowledge astonishes... This searing history
leaves a mark
*Publishers Weekly*
A well-researched, sobering view of the damage that Americans' need
to get high wreaks on [their] neighbors
*Kirkus*
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