Title:
El Narco : inside Mexico's criminal insurgency / Ioan Grillo.
Author:
Grillo, Ioan, 1973- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
Call Number:
HV5840 .M4 G75 2012
Abstract:
An eyewitness account of the rise of Mexico's drug cartels during the first decades of the twenty-first century.
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.
Edition:
Paperback edition.
ISBN:
9781608194018
Physical Description:
[vii], 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color, illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published in 2011; includes an afterword dated July, 2012.
Contents:
Ghosts -- pt. I. History: Poppies -- Hippies -- Cartels -- Tycoons -- Democrats -- Warlords -- pt. II. Anatomy: Traffic -- Murder -- Culture -- Faith -- Insurgency -- pt. III. Destiny: Prosecution -- Expansion -- Diversification -- Peace -- Afterword.
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