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The Mexican drug war is the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, as led by the U.S. federal government, that has resulted in an ongoing asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. This book traces not only the history of the Mexican drug cartels but it tries to put the reader "on the ground" of one of the most vicious wars in history. These groups of mostly poorly educated men and women have managed to build organizations that can match the Mexican Army in firepower and still, somehow remain invisible. But when we trace the history we can begin to see connections between the US business community that go back generations and links that seem to support the theory of active US support of the cartels themselves.