Chris Reed: Add Mexico to Afghanistan, Iraq to list of nations U.S. has severely wronged
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In “The Power of the Dog,” “The Cartel” and “The Border,” Winslow — who lives near Alpine — offers not just an operatic narco-saga but some of the most intensely, persuasively detailed criticism of U.S. foreign policy that I have ever seen.
A key point of his criticism is that the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement made it so easy for cartels to move cocaine, marijuana, heroin and now fentanyl across the border into the U.S. that it has warped Mexico’s economy, undermined its democracy and gotten more than 100,000 Mexicans killed.