1. Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
   The Kingpin Strategy
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how its adoption, in the form of targeted assassinations in the "war on terror," has similarly been a failure.
2. Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
   Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
3. Brazil: Journalist Evany José Metzker Murdered While Investigating Drugs and Child Exploitation in Minas Gerais
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   
4. The Candy Machine
   How Cocaine Took Over the World
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2010
   Cocaine is big business, and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps running it behind the scenes? Feiling traces cocaine's progress from legal ‘pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programmes in countries like Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand.
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1990
   
6. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1992
   
7. Drug use, the labour market and class conflict
   Resource Type: Article
   A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle.
8. Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year
   Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn't Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders.
9. Drug War Winners and Losers
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
10. Drug War Winners and Losers
    Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
11. How Australian bank financed the heroin trade
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    
12. Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
13. Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
14. The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War
    The Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media.
15. Narcoland
    The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Hernández explains how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. She reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico's government and business elite.
16. Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor/Oscapella and Associates
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
17. Sources welcomes Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor/Oscapella and Associates
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor/Oscapella and Associates.
18. The War Over Mangoes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.

Experts on Drugs & Organized Crime in the Sources Directory

1. International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)