500 words minimum for each and 2 references apiece

1. After reading the attached article i.e., The Pre-Colombian Era of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Cocaine, 1945-1965, please discuss the postwar decades of cocaine’s resurgence into two stages, 1947-59 and 1959-64. 

2. Please discuss in your own words (no quotes) the Mexican Cartels and how they have defied U.S. Drug Policies. In doing so, discuss Operation Intercept, and Operation Condor.