Show Notes
In this episode, we cover Operation Condor: how it started, its intended goals, and how the operation quickly began targeting minority groups. We also veer into how the operation helped to reorganize the space in which trafficking groups continued operating.
Sources for this episode are: Underground Empire by James Mills
CIA Assets and the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection by Jonathan Marshall
Nuestra Historia Narcótica. Pasajes Para (Re)legalizar Las Drogas en México by Froylán Enciso
NARCOLAND by Anabel Hernandez
Operation Condor: Mexico’s Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era by Richard Craig.
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott and J. Marshall
Operation Condor, The War on Drugs and Counterinsurgency in the Golden Triangle (1977–1983) by Adela Cedillo
The Dope by Benjamin T. Smith
This episode was written by DEMOLER; Post Production by Sharp Spoon Media
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