Journalist ioan grillo has spent a decade in mexico reporting on the drug wars. He reports for time magazine as well as producing presentations for stations including pbs, abc and channel 4 of the uk. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency, journalist ioan grillo describes what it is like to step inside a mexican warehouse filled with confiscated drugs. For those who would prefer an accurate fictional account, i highly recommend don winslows books the power of the dog and its sequel the cartel. Steve coll, the world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in mexico. Journalist ioan grillo has spent a decade in mexico reporting on the drug wars from the front lines. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency, has performed his dodiligence by risking life and limb sort of by reporting from the field and interviewing the people involved on both sides of the issue, he ruins it by employing slangstreet terms to describe them in his narrators voice. First and foremost, i have always wanted to read about the drug organizationscartels. The gripping account of the outofcontrol drug wars that have brought chao. A native of england, ioan grillo has covered mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines and tv stations in the us and uk. Accomplished, chilling account of the murderous growth of mexican drug cartels. Whats happening there has explosive potential consequences for every american, and ioan grillo s book shows you why. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders.
The veteran english journalist ioan grillo has interviewed many involved in. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency grillo, ioan on. The bloody rise of mexican drug cartels by ioan grillo 20120116 jan 1, 1800. And it has created paramilitary death squads with tens of thousands of menatarms from guatemala to the texas border. In brazils biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down fortyone police officers and prison guards in two days. Ive been covering latin america since 2001 for news media including time magazine, cnn, the associated press, global post, the houston chronicle, pbs newshour, al jazeera english, france 24, cbc, the sunday telegraph, the sunday times, gatopardo, the san francisco chronicle and many others. Drug dollars, killing fields, and the new politics of latin america, on a ranch south of texas, the man known as the executioner leaves five hundred body parts in metal barrels. The author has perfectly narrated on his research and findings. The bloody rise of mexican drug cartels by grillo, ioan isbn.
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. 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. He shows how the mexican drugs business originally began on. Additionally, the houston chronicle said that blog del narco is a gritty, frontrow seat to mexicos drug war.
Msnbc described blog del narco as mexicos goto web site on information on the countrys drug war. He regularly appears on radio and tv, commenting on mexican crime and other issues. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Moving between militiacontrolled ghettos and the halls of top policy makers, grillo provides a disturbing new understanding of a war that has. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency by grillo, ioan looks at the extremely violent criminal drug cartels that have arisen in mexico, maintaining that the phenomenon has in fact turned into a broadbased insurgency in support of drug traffic profits. From the manufacture and sale of drugs, to human trafficking, turf wars, among other criminal acts, narcos have an international footprint. There were many books referenced, but somehow i stumbled upon ioan grillo s book. The book covers the frontline of the mexican drug war. In southwest mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while. 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. Veteran mexico correspondent ioan grillo traces the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal empires.
I guess with the goal of impressing us all of his street cred. Please hit like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video. Each week, our editors select the one author and one book they believe. The one with the look into whats going on south of the border. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency is a nonfiction book of the mexican drug war written by ioan grillo. Grillo has achieved extraordinary access to gangsters and police often the same people. Im a journalist, writer and tv producer based in mexico city. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency by ioan grillo at indigo. Grillo is a briton living in mexico city who has been reporting on latin america for a decade. The narco cartels are a threat to the mexican government, and their violence has now reached as far as north carolina. Mexico citybased journalist grillo has reported from the region since 2001. Ioan grillo has reported on latin america since 2001 for international media including time magazine, reuters, cnn, the associated press, pbs newshour, the houston chronicle, cbc, and the sunday telegraph. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones.
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