| El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency Contributor(s): Grillo, Ioan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608194019 ISBN-13: 9781608194018 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Organized Crime - History | Modern - General - Social Science |
| Dewey: 363.450 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.80 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mexican - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States. Essential reading.-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com 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. |