John Ackerman: United States Drug War Policy Props Mexican Ruling Class
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June 7, 2013
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John Ackerman: Last two Mexican presidents relied on US support for legitimacy not found in polls. (TheRealNews)

The Real News Network continues a discussion with John Ackerman about Mexico, narco gangs, U.S. policy, and the roots of these problems. (See earlier inteview here)

Read the transcript at TheRealNews

John Ackerman is a professor at the Institute for Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He's also a columnist for Proceso magazine and La Jornada. He's editor in chief of The Mexican Law Review.

Paul Jay is CEO and Senior Editor of The Real News Network. As Senior Editor of TRNN Paul has overseen the production of over 4,500 news stories and is the Host of all news analysis programming.

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