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Loading... El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency (edition 2012)by Ioan Grillo (Author)
Work InformationEl Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) sgwordy | Dec 31, 2022 |  "El Narco" is the Ioan Grillo's attempt to explain the ins-and-outs of Mexico's drug war. It is a very ambitious book that covers a lot of ground. It does not have a particular main idea that it follows. The book reads like a collection of closely-related essays. Some of those essays have great details, such as an interview with an undercover DEA agent. However, Grillo spends a lot of effort describing the violent aspects of the war: beheadings, bloody gunfights, assassinations, and other gruesome aspects of the war. These seem to take precedence over Grillo's solutions and feelings about the drug war. As such, different chapters tend to go on and on. Grillo frequently uses a frustrating tactic when writing. He writes pages and pages detailing phenomena, making conclusive statements and theses. Then, he writes "or is it?" and squeezes out the opposite thesis over more and more pages. Perhaps this tactic is an attempt to provide a more nuanced approach to the issues, but it ends up contradicted long passages and rambling. A petty complaint from me is Grillo's use of slang. At different times in the book, he refers to cocaine as "the white lady," "yayo," "disco powder," and "blow." While the book rambles quite a bit, it is the biggest attempt that I have read of an author trying to explain the origins and diagnosis of the crisis. (  ) mvblair | Aug 9, 2020 | Still, stunning insight into something that we should all know about, and the last chapters about the Narco cartels' spread across the world is .... fundamental. ( ) GirlMeetsTractor | Mar 22, 2020 |  ) VGAHarris | Jan 19, 2015 | This book is based on the crimes that have been happening in Mexico. According to the author these are fact and true. To me there is so much information in this book it is hard for someone that does not watch a lot of world news (I works a split 1st/2nd -12 hr shift) to understand how all of this is happening. No I have not taken the time to look up the information on the internet. I am taking the author at there word. But with that being said, someone needs to do something about all the needless death, pain and suffering without bringing the people to another country. Sorry in my opinion and this is only my opinion, if the government was at all concerned about the welfare of there people they would find a way to put a stop to the crime, gang and drugs that are escaping the country to the citizens feel safe and are interested in staying there. ( ) kybunnies | Oct 19, 2014 |
 There's no question that Mexican society has been traumatized by the violence of the past five years; but through it all, some have found a way to cope. Grillo says that in Ciudad Juarez — a town he describes as "the most murderous city on the planet" — people have started going to the opera. "People are saying, 'Well this opera is an amazing chance for us to forget about this drug violence,' " Grillo says. " 'While you hear the music, it won't make anything better or improve your life; but at least for those minutes of hearing the music you can find an escape and imagine things getting better.' " Awards
"The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance, and money at the problem. But in secret, Washington is confused and divided about what to do. Who are these mysterious figures tearing Mexico apart, they wonder. What is El Narco? El Narco draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's cartels and how they have radically transformed in the past decade. El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands, from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-covered mountains. The conflict spawned by El Narco has given rise to paramilitary death squads enlisting tens of thousands of men-at-arms ready to do battle from Guatemala to the Texas border (and sometimes beyond.) Journalist Ioan Grillo has spent a decade in Mexico covering the drug war from the front lines. This piercing book joins testimonies from inside the cartels with firsthand dispatches and unsparing analysis. The devastation may be south of the Rio Grande, El Narco shows, but the United States is very much a part of the battleground."--Book jacket. No library descriptions found. |
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