For those who would prefer an accurate fictional account, i highly recommend don winslows books the power of the dog and its sequel the cartel. A gripping, sobering account of how mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nations democracy and reaches across to the united states. Las narco mansiones aseguradas en guadalajara un1on jalisco. Mexico citybased journalist grillo has reported from the region since 2001. Nov, 2012 a gripping, sobering account of how mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nations democracy and reaches across to the united states. Datos oficiales confirman a nueve grupos del crimen. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency by ioan grillo is an outstanding chronicle of the mexican drug war. Ioan grillo has reported on latin america since 2001 for international media including time magazine, reuters, cnn, the associated press, pbs newshour, the houston chronicle, cbc, and the sunday telegraph. Steve coll, the world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in mexico. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency is a nonfiction book of the mexican drug war written by ioan grillo. 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. Mexicans sometimes lay the blame for the drug war on the united states, which is the source of the vast amounts of money that flow into the drug cartels, corrupting mexican society. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding why there is such a drug war, how it started, and why its not going to.
This book should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding why there is such a drug war, how it started, and why its not going to go away anytime soon. Accomplished, chilling account of the murderous growth of mexican drug cartels. Additionally, the houston chronicle said that blog del narco is a gritty, frontrow seat to mexicos drug war. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency kindle edition by grillo, ioan. Las narco mansiones aseguradas en guadalajara jalisco. December 17, 1956 july 4, 1997 was a mexican drug lord who seized control of the juarez cartel after assassinating his boss rafael aguilar guajardo.
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