War on drugs or war on the poor? How bandit hunting formed a cover for Mexico's counterinsurgency campaign

If the drug trade has helped define the modern Mexican state, writes the author of a new article in The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, so too have wars on drugs. In "From Bandit Hunting to a War Against 'Social Poisoners': Counterinsurgency as Drug War and Drug War as Counterinsurgency in ...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-war-drugs-poor-bandit-mexico.html)