Roberto Zepeda
Dr. Roberto Zepeda is originally from Culiacan, Sinaloa and currently works as an economic analyst and teacher in Mexico City. His research focuses primarily on Mexican economic history, particularly in relation to the decline of trade unions in the neoliberal period, economic policies since 1982 and the political economy of narcotrafficking.
Books by Roberto Zepeda
Drug War Mexico
Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy
Peter Watt, Roberto Zepeda
Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become Mexico’s biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with an astonishing 9,000 drug-related executions in 2009 alone. In response, Mexican president Felipe Calderón,… (more information)