Gangland: The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from El Paso to VancouverA frightening look at Mexico's new power elitethe Mexican drug cartels The members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor of heroin and cocaine to the U.S. and Canada. Not only have their drugs crossed north of the border, so have the cartels (in 2009, 230 active Mexican drug cartels have been reported in U.S. cities). In Gangland, bestselling author Jerry Langton details their frightening stranglehold on the economy and daily life of Mexico todayand what it portends for the future of Mexico and its neighbours. Offering a firsthand look from members of law enforcement, politicians, journalists, and people involved in the drug trade in Mexico and Canada, Gangland sheds a harsh light on the multibillion dollar industry that is the drug trade, the territorial wars, and the on-the-street reality for the United States, with the importation of narco-terrorists. With the unstinting realism and keen analysis that have made him an internationally respected journalist, Langton offers the bleak prospects of what a collapsed government in Mexico might lead toa new Mexican warlord state not unlike Somalia.
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... Spanish to go to church and read their bibles. Nobody approaches the visitors from the north anymore. Instead, the first thing you see is the military, soldiers wearing masks so the cartels can't identify them and threaten their ...
... Spanish, Korean or Japanese) that take advantage of Mexico's low minimum wage and relaxed enforcement of labor and environmental regulations. The factories generally employ far more women than men (sometimes exclusively so) because of a ...
... Spanish in 1519, the territory that now forms Mexico was home to anywhere from 6 million to 25 million people (it is still difficult to estimate populations of precontact indigenous people). There were dozens of languages and ethnic ...
... Spanish had Cuba and Hispaniola, but then changed his mind because he decided Cortés was undermining his authority and seeking to claim more glory than he deserved (the two had been rivals in school back in Spain). Defying the ...
... Spanish. While exploring the Yucatan, Cortes fell in love with a Mayan slave. He was told she was a captured Aztec princess, but modern historians doubt that. Her exact name is also disputed —she is usually called Malinche, Malintzin or ...
Contents
A MexicanBorn Emperor | |
The Rise of the Drug Cartels | |
Enemies of the State | |
Trouble in Paradise | |
Calderon Versus the Cartels | |
Battling the Beltran Leyva Cartel | |
Carnage in 2009 | |
The Roll Call of Death | |
The War Expands | |
Exporting Drugs and Crime | |
The Violence Escalates | |
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Gangland: The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from El Paso to Vancouver Jerry Langton Limited preview - 2011 |
Gangland: The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from El Paso to Vancouver Jerry Langton No preview available - 2011 |