Journalist Michael Deibert explains how a cartel battle ignited a war across and beyond Mexico. by This Is Hell! published on 2014-07-01T12:23:01Z Americans have the luxury of measuring the cost of the drug war in wasted dollars. South of the US border, the price of getting drugs into America is measured in bodies, wrecked politics and blood-soaked riches. Journalist Michael Deibert tells the story of how cartel violence engulfed a nation and killed more than 70,000 people in his new book "In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America’s Drug War in Mexico." Michael calls in to explain the Gulf Cartel's links to America's 1930s Prohibition policies and 1980s military aid, how cartel battles spread across Mexico and throughout Mexican society, and why America's drug-hungry, prison-happy policies actually fuel the violence and feed the drug cartels. Michael Deibert is writer covering conflicts across Africa and Central America. His last book is "The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair." Genre Interview
