Download or read book El Narco written by Ioan Grillo and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘War’ is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorized Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count - 23,000 dead in five years - and sheer horror beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have attacked schools and rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is creeping northward, towards the United States. El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. It is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan Grillo traces the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal empires. The narco cartels are a threat to the Mexican government - and their violence has now reached as far as North Carolina. El Narco is required reading for anyone concerned about one of the most important news stories of the decade.

Download or read book Narco Estado written by Howard Campbell and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teun Voeten was originally born in the Netherlands. After a year as an exchange student in New Jersey, he travelled for a while all over Europe. Later, he studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Over the years to follow, Voeten covered the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Haiti and Rwanda for Dutch, Belgian, German and American publications. Voeten soon developed a taste for the so called 'forgotten wars' and went out to document the ongoing crises in Colombia, Afghanistan, Sudan and Sierra Leone. More recently, he focused his camera on the Gaza strip, the DR Congo and North Korea (design and architecture) as well as Chad (Darfur crisis), Iran, China (pollution) and more recently, in 2012, the Arab Spring in Egypt and Libya. Voeten has been published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, NY Times Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Newsweek, Time, Granta, Village Voice, Frankfurter Allgemeine, among others. His photos are used worldwide by relief organisations such as the International Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, UNICEF, UNHCR, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. AUTHOR: Howard Campbell is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the co-editor of the University of Texas Press Inter-America Series. Previously he published Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez, University of Texas Press. Javier Valdez Cadenas is a Mexican reporter and author who received several international awards for his writing on drug trafficking and organised crime in the Mexican drug war. In 2003, he and other reporters from the daily newspaper Noroeste founded Ríodoce, a weekly dedicated to crime and corruption in Sinaloa, considered one of Mexico's most violent states. He is also the author of several books on drug trafficking, including Miss Narco, which chronicles the lives of the girlfriends and wives of drug lords. In 2011, Valdez Cardenas was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists, "an annual recognition of courageous journalism". In his acceptance speech, he called the violence of Mexican drug trafficking "a tragedy that should shame us", blaming the citizenry of Mexico for giving the drug war its deaths. SELLING POINTS: *Intriguing photo book on drug violence in Mexico *War photographer Teun Voeten investigates the dark side of the Mexican society: murder, violence, criminality and mafia practices *Over the past 5 years, over 50,000 people have been killed in the Mexican drugs war. With over 3100 casualties each year, Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in the world *Poignant, distressing, harsh images in a colourful, southern setting ILLUSTRATIONS: 120 colour

Download or read book El Narco written by Ioan Grillo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the extremely violent criminal drug cartels that have arisen in Mexico, maintaining that the phenomenon has in fact turned into a broad-based insurgency in support of drug traffic profits.

Download or read book Historia del narcotr fico en M xico written by Guillermo Valdés Castellanos and published by AGUILAR. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historia del narcotráfico en México es, sin duda, la investigación más importante sobre la guerra contra el narco y sus protagonistas, además, un documento esclarecedor, objetivo y sincero, escrito desde lo más profundo de la problemática y con necesidad de contar la verdad, aunque sea dolorosa. Un análisis implacable y excelentemente documentado sobre los orígenes y alcances del narcotráfico en México. Escrito por Guillermo Valdés una de las voces más autorizadas en temas de crimen organizado, narcotráfico y política mexicana. El problema del narcotráfico en México ha alcanzado niveles insospechados debido a los acuerdos siniestros entre los líderes de los cárteles y los cuerpos policiacos, por la complicidad con algunos miembros del gobierno y las negociaciones establecidas por los narcos con militares y cuerpos de seguridad. El alto posicionamiento de los narcotraficantes resulta impactante y digno de un análisis cuidadoso. Guillermo Valdés lo ofrece en estas páginas de manera puntual y objetiva; elabora un recuento de sus protagonistas y los mecanismos que emplearon para alcanzar la cima en el negocio de los estupefacientes. Habla de grupos que ganan terreno cada día por medio del crimen, el asesinato y el comercio voraz, así como las prácticas utilizadas para fortalecer sus bandos e imponer su ley. Guillermo Valdés, titular del Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (CISEN) durante el gobierno de Felipe Calderón, en una de las etapas más críticas del enfrentamiento entre el Estado y los narcotraficantes, elabora una radiografía insuperable de este fenómeno social que fractura el orden social de nuestro país. Basado en un trabajo de campo agitadísimo, caracterizado por una delicada toma de decisiones, así como en años de investigación sobre problemas sociales de México, seguridad nacional y ejercicio del poder, el autor analiza las primeras expresiones del narcotráfico en nuestro país durante las décadas de los años veinte a los cuarenta del siglo pasado, el auge y la consolidación monopólica de 1940 a 1980, las fragmentaciones y rupturas durante los últimos años del siglo XX y la guerra franca del gobierno mexicano contra el narco en el presente siglo. Meticuloso y revelador, Guillermo Valdés detalla las acciones de los narcotraficantes y sus alcances en cuanto a ganancias, territorio y formas de operar; repasa el origen del comercio de drogas y las estrategias de sus actores esenciales: desde Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca: "Don Neto" y Félix Gallardo, hasta "El Mayo" Zambada, los Beltrán Leyva, Amado Carrillo: "El señor de los Cielos", Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, los Arellano Félix y Héctor "El Güero" Palma, entre muchos otros personajes que, en complicidad con comandantes de la policía, agentes ministeriales, representantes del ejército y políticos, han conformado un grupo de poder sin precedentes.

Download or read book Mexico written by George W Grayson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Mexico was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2010 by Choice Magazine.Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations, castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its northern neighbor, and the prospects for managing it.Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled in Tammany Hall fashion for seventy-nine years before losing the presidency in 2000 to the center-right National Action Party (PAN). Grayson focuses on drug wars, prohibition, corruption, and other antecedents that occurred during the PRI's hegemony. He illuminates the diaspora of drug cartels and their fragmentation, analyzes the emergence of new gangs, sets forth President Felipe Calderi?1/2n's strategy against vicious criminal organizations, and assesses its relative success. Grayson reviews the effect of narcotics-focused issues in U.S.-Mexican relations. He considers the possibility that Mexico may become a failed state, as feared by opinion-leaders, even as it pursues an aggressive but thus far unsuccessful crusade against the importation, processing, and sale of illegal substances.Becoming a failed state involves two dimensions of state power: its scope, or the different functions and goals taken on by governments, and its strength, or the government's ability to plan and execute policies. The Mexican state boasts an extensive scope evidenced by its monopoly over the petroleum industry, its role as the major supplier of electricity, its financing of public education, its numerous retirement and health-care programs, its control of public universities, and its dominance

Download or read book El Cartel written by Sylvia Longmire and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¡LA INMINENTE INVASIÓN DE LA GUERRA DE LA DROGA DE MÉXICO! Tras haber observado los carteles mexicanos de la droga durante años, la experta en seguridad fronteriza Sylvia Longmire nos conduce a lo más profundo de ese mundo para ser testigos de una peligrosa subcultura clandestina que hará lo que sea necesario para proveer drogas a un bien dispuesto público de consumidores estadounidenses. Los carteles han crecido cada vez más en los últimos años, construyendo submarinos que suben por las costas de América Central y excavando complicados túneles por los que transportan drogas hacia el norte y por donde llevan de vuelta dinero en efectivo y armas largas de gran potencia fabricadas en Estados Unidos para fomentar la guerra del narcotráfico. Sirviéndose de su larga experiencia de trabajo con temas fronterizos, Longmire da vida a la real amenaza que representan los carteles mexicanos que operan no solo por toda la frontera del suroeste, sino también en lo más profundo de todos los rincones de Estados Unidos. Sylvia Longmire también ofrece soluciones reales a los críticos dilemas que enfrentan México y Estados Unidos, entre ellas programas para impedir que los jóvenes mexicanos se unan a los carteles y cambios en las leyes antidrogas a ambos lados de la frontera.

Download or read book Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds written by James H. Creechan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds describes the history of Mexican narco cartels and their regional and organizational trajectories and differences. Covering more than five decades, sociologist James H. Creechan unravels a web of government dependence, legitimate enterprises, and covert connections.

Download or read book When I Wear My Alligator Boots written by Shaylih Muehlmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the "war on drugs": despite the violence and suffering brought on by drug cartels, for the rural poor in Mexico’s north, narcotrafficking offers one of the few paths to upward mobility and is a powerful source of cultural meanings and local prestige. In the borderlands, traces of the drug trade are everywhere: from gang violence in cities to drug addiction in rural villages, from the vibrant folklore popularized in the narco-corridos of Norteña music to the icon of Jesús Malverde, the "patron saint" of narcos, tucked beneath the shirts of local people. In When I Wear My Alligator Boots, the author explores the everyday reality of the drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers, who live at the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of the war on drugs. Rather than telling the story of the powerful cartel leaders, the book focuses on the women who occasionally make their sandwiches, the low-level businessmen who launder their money, the addicts who consume their products, the mules who carry their money and drugs across borders, and the men and women who serve out prison sentences when their bosses' operations go awry.

Download or read book A Narco History written by Carmen Boullosa and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer--with increasingly deadly consequences. Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hugely from supplying Americans with what their government forbade them. But the policies that spawned the drug war have proved disastrous for both countries. Written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican,A Narco History reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to end it.

Download or read book Narco Noir written by Vanda Felbab-Brown and published by Geopolitics in the 21st Centur. This book was released on 2025-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and security expert Vanda Felbab-Brown conducted more than eight years of fieldwork across Mexico analyzing policy interventions in key crime and violence hotspots, as well as in control cases. The result is Narco Noir: Mexico's Cartels, Cops, and Corruption, an extensive and unique set of organized crime case studies that include principal cases like, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Monterrey, Michoacan, and Chiapas - as well as in Mexico City. Narco Noir provides detailed assessments of the various law enforcement strategies, socio-economic anti-crime policies, and civil society mobilization efforts in key violent hotspots. The cases cover a wide variety of crime patterns and dynamics as well as policy responses. Felbab-Brown also includes an extensive section of policy recommendations, providing a detailed analysis of how to improve law enforcement capacity and strategies, change interdiction patterns to achieve greater deterrence capacity, and restructure socio-economic anti-crime policies.

Download or read book Mitolog a del narcotraficante en M xico written by Luis Alejandro Astorga Almanza and published by Plaza y Valdes. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provocative study uses interviews and historical materials to support contention that both legal codification and folk songs serve to mythologize drug trafficking. Suggests that legal/political sector contributes to the myth by addressing drug trafficking in terms of good and evil, while corridos of drug dealers propagate the myth among the people, serving as a collective catharsis"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Download or read book La ley del cuerno written by Juan Villoro and published by Ediciones Puntocero. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La guerra contra el narcotráfico que se libra en México es un fenómeno infinitamente más complejo al que solo podremos aproximarnos cuando logremos rebasar las imágenes y los titulares que el "rating" demanda. Por ello, se reúnen en este volumen los trabajos de siete periodistas que han investigado el tema en profundidad, que han reflexionado sobre él y que han recorrido el campo de batalla para conocer de primera mano las historias de aquellas personas que, por voluntad o forzosamente, protagonizan este conflicto. Los textos han sido seleccionados con la intención de ofrecer al lector una visión estereoscópica. Cada uno de ellos aborda el asunto desde una perspectiva diferente. En "La alfombra roja, el imperio del narcoterrorismo" Juan Villoro reflexiona sobre el germen del problema: la oscuridad de la política mexicana y la impunidad. Pablo Ordaz, en "La muerte imparable", sale a patrullar las calles de Ciudad Juárez con un comando de la Policía Federal; Edgar D. Piñón Balderrama, en "Mi vida con el narco", nos cuenta cómo es ser periodista cuando el cártel de Juárez llama a tu móvil. Alejandro Almazán escribe la crónica "Las chicas Kaláshnikov", la vida de dos asesinas a sueldo contratadas por los cárteles. En "Los faraones", Diego E. Osorno cuenta cómo los narcos mexicanos llevan su opulencia característica al cementerio; Óscar Martínez nos entrega "Nosotros somos Los Zetas", una crónica sobre el cártel al que se le atribuye el secuestro y la matanza de cientos de inmigrantes; por último, Marcela Turati documenta el drama de las fosas comunes en "Descomposición nacional".

Download or read book Narcoland written by Anabel Hernández and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “investigative magnum opus” offers a jaw-dropping history of Mexican drug cartels as it transports readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times). “A riveting story . . . [from] an incredibly brave journalist.” —NPR The “war on drugs” has so far cost more than 60,000 lives. Hernández 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. At every turn, Hernández names not just the narcos, but also the politicians, functionaries, judges, and entrepreneurs who have collaborated with them. In doing so, she reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico’s government and business elite. 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 excess and misconduct at the presidential palace, and previous books have focused on criminality at the summit of power, under presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón. The product of 5 years’ investigative reporting—and the subject of intense national controversy—Narcoland is a publishing and political sensation in Mexico.

Download or read book Cartel The Coming Invasion of Mexico s Drug Wars written by Sylvia Longmire and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in recent years, building submarines to move up the coast of Central America and digging elaborate tunnels that both move drugs north and carry cash and U.S. high-powered assault weapons back to fuel the drug war. Channeling her long experience working on border issues, Longmire brings to life the very real threat of Mexican cartels operating not just along the southwest border, but deep inside every corner of the United States. She also offers real solutions to the critical problems facing Mexico and the United States, including programs to deter youth in Mexico from joining the cartels and changing drug laws on both sides of the border.

Download or read book El Sicario written by Sicario and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mexican drug cartel hit man reflects on 20 years of killing, torture and kidnapping in the most violent city on earth, Ciudad Juarez."

Download or read book La droga written by Benjamin Smith and published by DEBATE. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La verdadera historia del narcotráfico en México A partir de una investigación de archivo sin precedentes, documentos filtrados de la dea, la policía mexicana y cárteles, así como docenas de entrevistas desgarradoras, Smith cuenta una historia emocionante y llena de personajes vívidos, como Ignacia La Nacha Jasso, LaReina de las Drogas de Ciudad Juárez, Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, el médico que argumentó que la marihuana era inofensiva y trató de despenalizar la morfina; o Harry Anslinger, el maquiavélico fundador de la Oficina Federal de Narcóticos de Estados Unidos, quien incitó el pánico racista por las drogas para aumentar su presupuesto y poder. Smith también perfila los relatos cotidianos de los trabajadores agrícolas, cuyas historias revelan tantolos beneficios económicos como el costo humano del tráfico de sustancias ilegales. La droga explica la complicada dinámica que ha impulsado el combate a las drogas, desde principios del siglo xx hasta la actualidad, así como su fracaso; investiga las políticas respaldadas por Estados Unidos que han exacerbado la carnicería en territorio mexicano y explora la corrupción en ambos lados de la frontera. Un libro clave para comprender la perspectiva histórica del narcotráfico en México y cómo los mitos alrededor de él han conformado una imagen distorsionada de este país en el imaginario estadounidense actual. «La droga es impresionante. Arroja una luz implacable sobre los rincones más oscuros de una historia siniestra, revela el empoderamiento de los narcotraficantes mexicanos, y las responsabilidades de los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y México.» -Sergio Aguayo, profesor investigador del Centro de Estudios Internacionales de El Colegio de México «Con las habilidades de un buen historiador y el entusiasmo de un verdadero narrador, Benjamin T. Smith descubre las raíces retorcidas de la catastrófica guerra contra las drogas. Una historia fascinante, surrealista y trágica.» - Ioan Grillo, autor de El narco «La droga ofrece una historia amplia y compulsivamente atractiva que da un vuelco a más de un siglo de falsa retórica, destrozando los mitos más insidiosos y persistentes sobre el narcotráfico en México.» -Francisco Cantú, autor de La línea se convierte en río «Benjamin T. Smith disipa los mitos con una dosis de realidad muy necesaria. Las guerras contra las drogas en México son la consecuencia sangrienta de la voraz demanda de drogas de Estados Unidos y la insistencia simultánea en prohibirlas. El costo ha sido sorprendente, como lo demuestra Smith en este libro.»- Daniel Immerwahr , autor de How to Hide an Empire «La profundidad de los conocimientos de Smith asombra, y sus agudas críticas a la política de drogas de Estados Unidos dan en el blanco. Esta historia punzante deja una huella.»- Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Cartel Wives written by Mia Flores and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs. Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become US informants. Their husbands worked with--and then brought down--El Chapo, as well as dozens of high-level members of the Mexican cartels. They had everything money could buy: luxury cars, huge houses, and expensive jewelry--but they chose to give it all up when they cooperated with the US government. They knew that life was about more than wealth; it was about love, family, and doing what's right. Cartel Wives is a love story, a "Married to the Mob" story, an insider's look into the terrifying but high-flying empire of the new world of drugs, and, finally, the story of a major DEA and FBI operation.