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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... border more a formality than anything else to most people. "You'd go to Juarez for a good time; we'd go pretty much every weekend,” said Tim McNeill, an El Paso resident who hasn't been across the border in five years. "It was fun; you ...
... border. And although the laws on recreational drugs like marijuana had largely been the same in Texas and Mexico until recently, they have long been much more tolerated in Juarez, where the police rarely ever got in anyone's way. Not ...
... border, a taxista would offer you a ride or a hawker would appear hoping to sell something—oranges, prescription drugs, or maybe just a free ticket to the kind of strip show you'd never see north of the Rio Grande. That's all gone now ...
... border city. Its exterior plainness belies its rich history. The bar claims that it is the birthplace of the margarita, although that's been widely disputed. In its heyday during the 1950s and '60s, it was incredibly popular with famous ...
... border region by the abundance ofjob opportunities. Although about 400 bodies had been recovered, some estimates have claimed as many as 5,000 young women from the area have gone missing since 1993. The number of missing women is often ...
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 |