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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... started emulating the drug runners and their gangster bosses. Then it changed again. When the Mexican government cracked down on the drug cartels—the crime organizations that had evolved from street gangs acting as mules, ferrying ...
... started writing poetry in earnest at the age of eleven, and decided to make it her life's work. Even while still very young, she read her work before crowds and was included in prestigious exhibitions. Later, she earned a degree in ...
... started banging on a stranger's door in Juarez, screaming and begging for help. When police arrived, she told them that she had been repeatedly raped, beaten, suffocated and left for dead by a man named Jesus Guardado Marquez, known ...
... started calling him "El Dracula.” He and the other bus drivers recanted their confessions. Motores Electricos de Juarez, Gonzalez's employer, fired her and sued her for taking a job she was too young for. Sharif's sentence was reduced ...
... started to shout insults and throw stones at Moctezuma. He was hit by some and badly injured, dying a few days later. Cortés joined his men under siege and started to make a plan. Since the Mexica had removed large sections of each of ...
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 |