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The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
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September 2013
On Sale: September 10, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 1781680736
EAN: 9781781680735
Kindle: B00BVJFN3S
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Non-Fiction
Explosive, bestselling account of Mexico’s drug cartels
and the government–business nexus that enables them.
The product of five years of investigative reporting, the
subject of intense national controversy, and the source of
death threats that forced the National Human Rights
Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel
Hernández, The Lords of el Narco has been a
publishing and political sensation in Mexico.
The definitive
history and anatomy of the drug cartels and the “war on
drugs” that has cost more than 50,000 lives in just five
years, the book explains in riveting detail how Mexico
became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one
of the most violent places on the planet. Hernández reveals
the complicity of Mexico’s government and business elite. At
every turn, she names names—not just the narcos and
their immediate accomplices, but also the politicians,
policemen, functionaries, judges and entrepreneurs who have
collaborated with them.
Hernández became a
journalist after her father was kidnapped and killed and the
police refused to investigate without a bribe. She gained
national prominence in 2001 with her exposure of pharaonic
spending on housekeeping at the presidential palace. All her
previous books have also focused on corruption at the summit
of power, under presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón.
In 2012, the World
Association of Newspapers and News Publishers awarded her
the Golden Pen of Freedom, declaring: "Mexico has become one
of the most dangerous countries in the world for
journalists, with violence and impunity remaining major
challenges in terms of press freedom. In making this award,
WAN-IFRA recognises the strong stance Ms. Hernández has
taken, at great personal risk, against drug cartels. Her
actions help ensure the development of good, unrestricted
investigative journalism in the region."
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