Women Drug Traffickers
Subtitle: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780826351982
Subjects: Drug dealers; Female offenders; Drug traffic; Drug abuse and crime; Crime, mexico
Description: In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key but rarely acknowledged roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers. Using international diplomatic documents, trial transcripts, medical and public welfare studies, correspondence between drug czars, and prison and hospital records as research the author brings to life women drug smugglers in the early twentieth century as well as the cartel queens who make news today.