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MORNING SHOW

DRUG WAR CAPITALISM AUTHOR ON WBAI'S MORNING SHOW

Friday, February 13, 2015   12:00 AM - 11:30 PM

Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since precolonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today’s “Drug Wars”—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill prisons with poor people. Dawn Paley, a freelance journalist who has been reporting from South America, Central America, and Mexico for over ten years, spoke with Christy Thornton on the WBAI Morning Show about her new book, Drug War Capitalism.

In the book, Paley moves beyond the usual horror stories, beyond journalistic rubbernecking and hand-wringing, to follow the thread of the Drug War story throughout the entire region of Latin America and all the way back to US boardrooms and political offices. Thornton engages Paley about this story.