Review of "Amexica: War Along the Borderline" by Ed Vulliamy http://angrywhitekid.blogs.com/weblog/2011/03/review-of-amexica-war-along-the-borderline-by-ed-vulliamy.html

 Vulliamy gets some things right - pointing out the fact that the drug trade is just another form of transnational capitalism; examining the U.S. role in arming the cartels and laundering their money; describing the toll neoliberalism has taken on Mexico in terms of migration and maquiladoras; and putting names and faces on some the 35,000+ dead in Felipe Calderón’s disastrous so-called fight against organized crime. The main problem is that all of this is carried out superficially and with a lack of historical context and political analysis, along with omissions and errors. As such, if you want to know how things are right now in the borderlands, reading this book might be somewhat useful. If you want to know why things are they way they are right now, this book will not help you.

[ordered a copy ,book seems interesting,meanwhile some backround of fake war on drugs,see my section on such on issue...