I think as one of the best books out there on the ongoing mexican drug war. The book covers the frontline of the mexican drug war. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Accomplished, chilling account of the murderous growth of mexican drug cartels. In the british edition, published in september 2011, the book bore the subtitle, the bloody rise of mexican drug cartels. A gripping, sobering account of how mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nations democracy and spirals into the united states. May 16, 20 blog del narco is an internet sensation which has chronicled mexicos drug war with graphic images and shocking stories few others dare show.
Although precursors of blog del narco existed, the use of the web for reporting on the mexican drug war only became widespread after 2008. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency is a nonfiction book of the mexican drug war written by ioan grillo. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. For decades the state was a neutral zone for the cartels. Additionally, the houston chronicle said that blog del narco is a gritty, frontrow seat to mexicos drug war. Nov, 2012 a gripping, sobering account of how mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nations democracy and reaches across to the united states. It is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. Several decades before blog del narco emerged in 2010, critical information pertaining to drug smugglers was disseminated through a genre of folk music called narcocorridos, or drug ballads. The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in mexico. Guadalupe montenegro, 1886 page images at hathitrust. The blog del narco reported on 21 september 2011 that the message was supposedly.
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