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Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

Keith Preston

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2024
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
– Ronald Reagan, The New York Times [April 13, 1980]

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December 10, 2024
Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity
Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narco Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple TV+ documentary “Cowboy Cartel” revolved around my hometown of Laredo, Texas, where I lived almost half my life and practiced law for 8 years, I couldn’t resist …
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