Drug trafficking in the Tarahumara region, northern Mexico: An analysis of racism and dispossession

Drug trafficking in Mexico has been widely debated from economic and legal perspectives. Some studies conclude that corruption is to blame (Garay & Albarán, 2012, Grayson, 2010, Valdés, 2013); yet others argue that criminal organizations are producing terror-based governance patterns grounded in their ambivalent relationship with the State (Campbell, 2010, Gibler, 2017, Reyes, 2015, Paley, 2014, Paley, 2015). However, what role do mestizaje and...