The history of drug trafficking in Mexico is, after all, the history of the perverse political system that governs us. First the media says it and soon the narco-versa, the movies and the corridos repeat: "The drug cartels have built empires of criminality that go beyond the power of the State". We all know to know capos, squares and routes, and yet what we know about the narco is not real. Our ideas about drug trafficking are, almost entirely, the result of a tricky narrative conceived by the governments of Mexico and the United States. We have all learned that story. It's time to start unlearning it and facing reality. In this book, halfway between political essay and cultural criticism, Oswaldo Zavala demolishes with amazing lucidity the myths built around drug trafficking and dares to observe in another way the complex phenomenon of drug trafficking. The cartels, as they wanted to sell us, do not exist. There are the political strategies that conceived them. There is drug trafficking, but strongly controlled by official institutions. There is violence, but to a large extent perpetrated by the same State that should protect us. The history of drug trafficking in Mexico is, after all, the history of the perverse political system that governs us. "Spend some time with Oswaldo Zavala, talk for a while with him about the drug trade and, almost certainly, you will end up realizing that everything you think you know about it is nothing more than a myth." Remix