El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
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- Synopsis
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The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico.
Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares.
And it is all because a few Americans are getting high.
Or is it part of a worldwide shadow economy that threatens Mexico's democracy?
The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance, and lots of money at the problem.
But in secret, Washington is at a loss.
Who are these mysterious figures who threaten Mexico's democracy?
What is El Narco?
El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands, from bullet-riddled barrios to marijuana-covered mountains.
The conflict spawned by El Narco has given rise to paramilitary death squads battling from Guatemala to the Texas border (and sometimes beyond).
In this "propulsive ... high-octane" book (Publishers Weekly), Ioan Grillo draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's cartels and how they have radically transformed in the past decade.
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9781608194018
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Date of Addition:
- 06/04/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Ioan Grillo
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.