Sunjeev Bery

Tag: Mexican drug war

  • Dollar vs. Dollar: U.S. Consumers Battle U.S. Taxpayers in Global Drug War

    The Huffington Post Posted: February 3, 2010 By Sanjeev Bery Although the reporting has improved in recent years, U.S. media coverage of the “war on drugs” continues to ignore the economic realities of just who is fighting who in the conflict. The drug war is best understood as a battle of dollar versus dollar —…

  • Dollar vs. Dollar

    Until recently, a fundamental reality has been missing from U.S. media coverage of the “drug wars” in Latin America.    Time and again, our headlines have pointed to the scary “other” — the corrupt Mexican police officer, the Colombian drug trafficker, the peasant farmer who ekes out a living growing a poisonous crop. A case in…