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Mexico’s cartels use violence against women as a means of social control

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par Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University

Mexico’s drug cartels are often described as powerful rivals to the state, with their influence measured in weapons, money and murdered officials. But this framing misses a fundamental truth. Organised crime in Mexico is also a system of gendered governance – one that disciplines, controls and sometimes eliminates women to consolidate power.

The term “narco-femicide” captures…

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