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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... claimed as many as 5,000 young women from the area have gone missing since 1993. The number of missing women is often under-reported because until recently Mexican police did not begin searches for missing persons until they had been ...
... claimed that her murder was an unfortunate isolated incident, and not the result of the Drug War or Cha'vez's activism. “Unfortunately, these people were drunk, they were taking drugs, and after hanging out for a while, they decided to ...
... claimed that Contreras Jurado testified that Armendariz Diaz had once ordered him to visit Sharif in prison and bring back an envelope containing $4,000 in US. currency. Once it was received, they said, Armendariz Diaz ordered the gang ...
... claimed that their leader, Moreno Rivera, had been hired by Sharif in an effort to clear his name, just as they alleged Los Rebeldes had. They said Sharif had paid the bus drivers $1,200 per murder and that he demanded the victims ...
... claiming new territories for Spain, forcing the inhabitants to work for them and to accept their religion. The governor of Hispaniola hired Cortés to colonize Mexico as the Spanish had Cuba and Hispaniola, but then changed his mind ...
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 |