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Tagged: drug violence, latina, Mexico, university of texas

María Guadalupe isn’t alone. In a sign that powerful drug cartels are extending their reach further into Mexican society, an increasing number of women are becoming involved in Mexico’s drug trade, even as violence grows, authorities say.

“The numbers continue to grow, in spite of the violence we’re witnessing,” said Howard Campbell, an anthropologist at the University of Texas at El Paso whose study on women in drug cartels was published in the winter edition of Anthropological Quarterly.”*