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Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new territories to privatization and foreign direct investment.

Combining on-the-ground reporting with extensive research, Dawn Paley moves beyond the usual horror stories, beyond journalistic rubbernecking and hand-wringing, to follow the thread of the Drug War story throughout the entire region of Latin America and all the way back to US boardrooms and political offices. This unprecedented book chronicles how terror is used against the population at large in cities and rural areas, generating panic and facilitating policy changes that benefit the international private sector, particularly extractive industries like petroleum and mining. This is what is really going on. This is drug war capitalism.

Dawn Paley is a freelance journalist who has been reporting from South America, Central America, and Mexico for over ten years. Her writing has been published in the Nation, the Guardian, Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, Ms. magazine, the Tyee, Georgia Straight, and NACLA, among others.

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Dawn Paley is a freelance journalist who has been reporting from South America, Central America and Mexico for over 10 years. Her writing has been published in magazines and newspapers in Canada, the US and elsewhere. Prior to writing Drug War Capitalism, Dawn's work focussed on the impacts of the extractive industries. She is an editor with the Media Co-op and is dedicated to supporting independent and grassroots media. Dawn has a Masters in Journalism from the University of British Columbia.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1849351937
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ AK Press (December 9, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 225 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781849351935
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849351935
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 8.9 inches
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Dawn Paley is a journalist from Vancouver, BC (Coast Salish territories).

Her first book, Drug War Capitalism, was released November 2014 with AK Press.

She's written for magazines and newspapers including the The Guardian, Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, BC Business Magazine, The Nation, The Dominion, Ms. Magazine, The Tyee, the Georgia Straight, Briarpatch, NACLA Reports, This Magazine, Canadian Dimension, Counterpunch, The Vue Weekly, Watershed Sentinel and Upside Down World. Her work in radio and television has been featured on Democracy Now!, Free Speech Radio News, and CBC Radio.

Dawn is currently a doctoral student at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla in Mexico. Her doctoral research is focused on clandestine mass graves and the war on drugs in Mexico.

In 2010, Dawn completed her Masters in Journalism at the University of British Columbia. Her thesis project proposes that journalists should study transnational theory as a prerequisite for responsible foreign correspondence, and examines the formation and evolution of the Honduran elite in relation to the 2009 coup d'etat as a case study. Dawn has a Bachelor's degree in Women's Studies and First Nations Studies from Simon Fraser University. She is currently a graduate student mentor in the Department of Geography at UBC.

Dawn has reported on the extractive industries, trade, and organized crime from off the map hotspots throughout the Americas. Over the past few years, she's filed from southwest Colombia, Guatemala, pre- and post-coup Honduras, and northeast Mexico.

Dawn is a contributing editor with The Dominion, Canada's only independent news cooperative, and a co-founder of the Vancouver Media Co-op. She regularly teaches community journalism workshops.

In 2008, Dawn worked as an assistant producer on the award winning feature documentary Under Rich Earth, shot in the Intag region of Ecuador.

Dawn has also worked as a researcher for clients including MiningWatch Canada, Wide Open Exposure and Naomi Klein, among others.

She can be reached by email at dawnpaley at gmail dot com, and you can follow her on Twitter @dawn_, like her work on Facebook, or add her on Academia.edu.

Photograph by Caelie Frampton.

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    Muy ilustrativo, muestra una visión de los cárteles muy esclarecedora y por qué es tan difícil terminar con ellos.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A very inquisitive and well researched book!
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    Throughout the whole book journalist Dawn Paley showed the other side of the coin of the so called "drug wars" in latinamerica. Her thorough research has rendered an excellent book that should be a must read for all those concerned about not only the fate of some key latinamerican countries such as Mexico and Colombia but of future U.S. policy on narcotics. She has combed the terrain and spoken to all types of sources, from the typical rank-and-file citizen to the well-placed politician and/or academic. I wish more books like this on other subjects would appear in the near future so as to shed light on things most of us ignore.
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    A phenomenal read, and a good antidote to the usual mass media rhetoric about the 'drug war' - anyone interested in the politics of drug initiatives and the social side of the conflicts should definitely check this out.
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