In A Narco History (OR Books, 2015), Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace explored the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced the so-called “Mexican Drug War,” which is, despite its common moniker, a joint creation of the United States and Mexico.

At the Macaulay Honors College Research Seminar that took place in Autumn 2024, we reconsidered the premises of the above mentioned book, and formulated the questions that could help us start a basic bibliography to guide the writing that could narrate how, untill this day, the US and Mexico jointly create the “Mexican Drug War”, and what does this means now. The present webpage is a result of the meetings and conversations between Caro Hamrick, Emily Lenahan and Professor Carmen Boullosa.

Not all of our conversations landed in useful bibliography. Explore here some that did, and watch three presentations and conversations with three distinguished Mexican academics and journalists: Lucía Melgar, Paula Mónaco Felipe and Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo.

Produced by Joseph Pentangelo, the Teaching and Learning Collaboratory at the Macaulay Honors College, and the Research Seminar, this webpage contains the early steps taken to build the bibliography and start framing what has been happening from 2016 to our day´s joint Narco History.