• The history of Mexican land reform, from pre-1900s to now
• The history of the Mexican illegal drug trade, from pre-1900s to now
• The relationship between Mexico’s liberalization of the agricultural sector and the illegal drug trade

…be sure to let me know. I just finished a 20 page paper (SINGLE SPAAAACED) and I have lots of feelings about this. 

A few things that I want to remember because they are especially interesting are:

• that Mexico provides 80% of the marijuana, 20 to 30% of the heroin, and 80% of the cocaine consumed in the U.S. (The cocaine isn’t produced there, but rather transported by Mexican cartels with links to Colombians and Peruvian cartels.) 
• Cartels have colluded with the government since the 1940s. 
• The next big thing? Mexican meth. 
• Article 27 of Mexico’s constitution originally (when it was written in like 1917) redistributed land into ejidos, to be communally owned and worked by campesinos. It also disallowed foreign ownership of land, as well as the sale/renting/debt-collecting of the ejidos; Article 27 was basically rewritten in the late ’80s/early ’90s to allow all of those things (easier privatization) and smooth the way for Mexico’s entry into free-trade agreements.  
• President Cardenas was a boss.