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A 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.
1 Deadly Playground 1
2 The Eagle Eats the Snake 17
3 A Mexican-born Emperor 33
4 The Rise of the Drug Cartels 51
5 Enemies of the State 73
6 Trouble in Paradise 85
7 Calderón Versus the Cartels 103
8 Battling the Beltrán Leyva Cartel 113
9 Carnage in 2009 131
10 The Roll Call of Death 145
11 The War Expands 159
12 Exporting Drugs and Crime 169
13 The Violence Escalates 181
14 "A Phase of Very Intense Violence . . ." 209
15 Mexican Cartel Violence Moves North 235
Notes 255
Sources 259
Index 261
Anonymous
Posted May 13, 2012
Excellent, thoroughly researched book.
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A 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. ...