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.
|
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 13
... murder rate of the city ofjust over 1 million is higher than that of Baghdad and Kandahar combined. But unlike so many other establishments in the area, the Kentucky Club has been free of violence. “In a way, I feel calm because we pay ...
... murders of two of their reporters in one week, the editors had no choice but to admit who was boss. "You are, at present, the de facto authorities in this city,” the letter read, "because the legal institutions have not been able to ...
... murdered in and around Juarez. It was a strange and chilling phenomenon, even in what has since become one of the most violent cities in the world. Beginning in 1993, the bodies of women began showing up on the streets, alleys, vacant ...
... murders. She became famous in the area—a leading member of the advocacy group Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa. (Bring. Our. Daughters. Home)—and. her. phrase. Ni. una. mas. (Not. one more) became a rallying cry for the entire movement. And ...
... murder was an unfortunate isolated incident, and not the result of the Drug War or Cha'vez's activism ... murders began in earnest in 1993, many people have been charged with the killings and put behind bars, but the bodies keep showing ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
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 |