La Nacha: The Heroin Queen of Juárez

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I. Smuggling in the Drug War Zone
5. Introduction: Drug Trafficking—Studies and Sources Relevant to the Mexican-American Drug War Zone 37
6. La Nacha: The Heroin Queen of Juárez 40
7. The Roots of Contraband Smuggling in El Paso 53
8. Female Drug Lord 60
9. Community-Based Drug Use, Smuggling, and Dealing in the 1970s and 1980s 76
10. Selling Drugs in Downtown Juárez: Juan and Jorge 97
11. A Young Smuggler and His Family 106
12. Blaxicans: The Life of a Chicano Smuggler and Musician on the Borderline of African American and Mexican American Culture 113
13. Drug Addiction and Drug Trafficking in the Life of an Anarchist 131
14. Drug Smuggling through Tunnels: The Tale of a Scuba-Diving Instructor 158
15. Witness to a Juárez Drug Killing 166
16. PART II. Law Enforcement in the Drug War Zone
17. Introduction: Ethnographic Dimensions of Law Enforcement in the Drug War Zone 173
18. Undercover Agent on the Border: Cultural Disguises 179
19. The Death of Francisco 193
20. A Juárez Policeman Fighting Drug Traffickers 200
21. Journalism and Drug Trafficking: Covering the Narco Beat on the Border 215
22. Patrolling the Drug War Zone: A Border Patrol Agent in the War on Drugs 227
23. Intelligence and the Drug War: Commander of an Antidrug Task Force on the Border 239
24. Excerpt from Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler, by Jerry Kamstra 257
25. Agent against Prohibition 259
26. Epilogue and Conclusion 265
27. Notes 275
28. References 287
29. Index 297