Dimes and Judas review “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency” by Ioan Grillo. Here they investigate not only the complex history of the Mexican drug trade but also the claim that it is both the invisible hand of the market market and the criminalization of drugs that causes the death cult terrorist beheadings. Continuing on, they review of “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist” by Oswaldo Zavala. Presented is an anti-neoliberal-capitalist analysis of the Mexica drug war based on the supposition that cartels are a security state invention to justify the status quo.

Timestamps:

00:00 – “El Narco” Review Begins

05:37 – The Trade of Guns Flowing South

07:10 – The Zetas

11:09 – The Blossoming of Cartels Due to Democracy

16:40 – The Sinaloa Cartel Dynasty Exists and Knows What Drugs Are

20:36 – Mexicans Stole the Drug Trade from the Chinese

24:43 – Did the CIA Fund the Drug Trade in WW2?

27:22 – The Drug War as a Spigot for Latin American Military Support

31:43 – The American Bureaucratic War of Alliances Inside Mexico

33:56 – Cartel Capture of Organs of Power and The Problem of Supporting Competition

43:38 – Narco Religions and Catholic Death Cults

52:52 – Narco Propaganda in Podcast Tours

57:50 – “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist” Discussion Begins

01:04:22 – The Narco as Imagined by the Military

01:07:12 – America Driving the Drug War in Mexico

01:11:32 – The Metaphysical Corpse of El Chapo

01:17:59 – Reaffirming the Agency of Mexican Drug Pushers in the Market Narrative

01:26:53 – Relocating the Center of Power to the Security State Apparatus

01:30:25 – Drugs as a False Mimetic Crisis