When I Wear My Alligator Boots Analysis

Ever since the United States implemented the War on Drugs campaign in the mid-twentieth century, the campaign has radically changed the political and economic relationships between the United States and Mexico. The United States gained significant advantages in its economic endeavors due the creation of the North American Trading Agreement (NAFTA) and the illegalization of several drugs such as marijuana, methamphetamines and cocaine. However, the War on Drugs campaign has affected the agricultural economy of Northern Mexico and thus replaced the legal agricultural economy into an illegal drug-trading economy. Shaylih Muehlmann’s When I Wear My Alligator Boots, is an ethnography based on the everyday lives of men and women affiliated with