Capital's casualties

Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico, Alke Jenss, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole, 4 July 2023

Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico, Alke Jenss, 2023, Rowman and Littlefield

There is no doubt that neoliberal policymaking was intimately associated with the nightmarish violence perpetrated against the populations of both Colombia and Mexico during the “war on drugs”.

Indeed, there is probably a…