La Guerra contra el Narco

In this chapter I am interested in reflecting on the impact that the so-called war against drugs is having on the bodies and territories of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Taking as an analytical window the life stories of women victims of sexual violence in militarized and paramilitarized regions, as well as the stories of exclusion of indigenous women imprisoned in the framework of the fight against drug trafficking, I want to establish a link between occupation through rape of the bodies of indigenous women, their control and imprisonment, with the occupation of their territories and the dispossession of their natural resources.

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