The Dig: The Drug War in Mexico with Anabel Hernández

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🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is on trial in New York. After twice making his way out of Mexican prisons, he was extradited to the United States. This is what counts as a major victory in the never-ending US war on drugs, which the US has in recent decades exported to Mexico. Yet El Chapo's arrest, like that of so many others, has done nothing to stop Mexican drug cartels from continuing to export massive quantities of cocaine and heroin and other drugs. Neither has it caused cartels to pause the murderous bloodbath that they have visited upon the Mexican people. The Mexican state continues to be a corrupt one, and the domestic deployment of a Mexican military deeply implicated in human rights violations is set to continue. And there is still no justice for the disappeared students from Ayotzinapa. Dan interviews legendary Mexican investigative journalist Anabel Hernández.

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0:26.5	For nearly 40 years, David Harvey is written and lectured on capital, becoming one of the world's
0:31.9	foremost Marxist scholars.
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0:42.0	presents this depth of learning to a broader audience
0:44.9	guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A
0:50.9	companion to Marx's capital offers fresh original and sometimes critical
0:56.7	interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and as Harvey
1:01.6	intimates may do so again.
1:04.0	Now a classic of Marxian economics,
1:07.0	the limits to capital, provides one of the best theoretical guides
1:10.0	to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition,
1:15.3	Harvey updates his seminal text with a substantial discussion of the
1:19.7	turmoil in world markets today. Delving into concepts such as fictitious capital and uneven geographical development,
1:28.0	Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx's controversial argument concerning
1:36.1	the falling rate of profit, and closing with a timely foray into the geopolitical and geographical implications of Marx's work.
1:45.0	A companion to Marx's capital, the complete addition, and the limits to capital,
1:51.0	are both by David Harvey and out now in new editions from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm temporarily broadcasting from Santiago
2:15.8	de Chile. El Chappo Guzman, the leader of Mexico's Sinoloa
2:20.9	cartel, is on trial in a New York federal courthouse.
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