The Mexican Drug War’s Collateral Damages on Women

Abstract

She has mainly worked in non-profit organizations that focus on improving living conditions of low-income people in Mexico. She is currently an advocate for women's rights and immigrants' rights. Her area of study includes collateral damages of the drug war, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, women's rights and global feminism.

Families, Lovers, and Friends: Women, Social Networks, and Transnational Cocaine Smuggling from Curaçao and Peru

“…In those circumstances, drug traders did not need special recruitment techniques to find suitable candidates but could draw upon a large number of people present who were willing to smuggle drugs. More and more people will take the risk to engage in organised drug trafficking (Anderson , p.77; Salinas , p.45). Widespread participation in transnational cocaine smuggling impacts on how people think about it.…”

“…According to Gabbidon () the social and psychological consequences of colonialism, including how people from former colonies react to the conditions and the alienation that results from exposure to a system that still inherently preaches the superiority of the coloniser and the inferiority of the colonised, is an essential context for understanding the origins of the cocaine trade (p.12). Salinas (, p.32) examined the impact of the drug war on vulnerable women in Mexico from a post‐colonial and feminist perspective. Focusing on women in this particular situation provides a lens to understand that the drug trade is not just a problem of criminality and legal justice, but it is also about profound historic inequality and social injustice.…”