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Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
Bloomsbury Press
November 2011
On Sale: October 25, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 1608192113
EAN: 9781608192113
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico.
Thirty 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? The
United States throws Black Hawk helicopters and drug agents
at the problem. But in secret, Washington is confused and
divided about what to do. Who are these mysterious figures
tearing Mexico apart? they wonder. What is El Narco? El Narco draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's
drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the
last decade. El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an
industry drawing in hundreds of thousands from bullet-ridden
barrios to marijuana-growing mountains. And it has created
paramilitary death squads with tens of thousands of
men-at-arms from Guatemala to the Texas border. Journalist
Ioan Grillo has spent a decade in Mexico reporting on the
drug wars from the front lines. This piercing book joins
testimonies from inside the cartels with firsthand
dispatches and unsparing analysis. The devastation may be
south of the Rio Grande, El Narco shows, but America is
knee-deep in this conflict.
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