El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
- Kategoria:
- reportaż
- Wydawnictwo:
- Bloomsbury
- Data wydania:
- 2012-11-13
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2012-11-13
- Liczba stron:
- 336
- Czas czytania
- 5 godz. 36 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9781608194018
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 store-fronts; 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).
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