Today, on our season finale, on we reflect on the stories we’ve heard about drug wars around the world, to determine how knowing where we’ve been in our past can direct us in our present and future. Host: Brionna Mendoza (@brionna_mendoza) Guests: Alexander Aviña Dan Weimer Miche ...Show more
5. Counterinsurgency and Drugs in Cold War Thailand and Mexico
On this episode of Prologued, we continue our examine of how the War on Drugs intersected with the Cold War by examining domestic politics in Thailand and Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. Host: Brionna Mendoza (@brionna_mendoza) Guests: Daniel Weimer Alexander Aviña (@Alexander ...Show more
4. Afghanistan, Drugs, and the Cold War
On this episode of Prologued, we follow the Global War on Drugs to Afghanistan. Opium has played a significant role in its history and, as we discuss, shaped how Afghan policymakers have negotiated its position in the world throughout its history. Host: Brionna Mendoza (@brionna_ ...Show more
3. Devising a Drug-Free World
On this episode of Prologued, we turn our attention back to the nation that ultimately made a global War on Drugs possible: the United States. Learn with us how, during the 1930s and 1940s, the U.S. began to establish a global model for pursuing drug prohibition both at home and ...Show more
2. "A New and Deadly Menace"
On this episode of Prologued, we discuss 19th-century antecedents to the modern U.S. War on Drugs. As we will see, the United States doesn't have a monopoly on drug wars. Our investigation takes us to late imperial China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultim ...Show more