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The veteran English journalist Ioan Grillo has interviewed many involved in this horror show of barbarity, and while El Narco is a particularly painful read, Grillo’s brilliant narrative and sober analysis is an important contribution to understanding how such a nightmare became reality and what might be done to end it. 'id': '9781608195046',
Now Ioan Grillo steps back to take the longer view. [16] In addition, William Booth of the Washington Post said that Grillo "goes much, much deeper" in reporting the "crazy death spiral of drug violence" in Mexico's drug war. El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency is packed with interviews that present a fascinating and terrifying history of Mexico’s narco culture.
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A clear and candid contribution to an essential conversation. POLITICS But it felt somehow surreal, like Gonzalo was watching these terrible acts from above. GENERAL CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES Unfortunately for everyone, the nascent democratic government was persuaded to adopt the American “drug war” model, resulting in a startling deterioration of the social fabric—retaliatory actions by gangsters have resulted in numerous massacres, including attacks on civilians and police officers. Books About Racism Sell Out at Amazon, B&N, Antiracist Book Dethrones Hunger Games Prequel. [1] In El Narco, Grillo takes a close look at the Mexican drug trade, starting with the term "El Narco", which has come to represent the vast, faceless criminal network of drug traffickers who cast a murderous shadow over Mexico.
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"[14], According to Blogcritics, El Narco is a "tough, straightforward, kick-in-the-nuts reportage by a man who is determined to ignore all the ideological gibberish and see for himself what's really going on in Mexico". [25] The magazine noted that Grillo has spent years traveling to Mexico's drug war hotspots: "Sinaloa, Michoacán, Ciudad Juárez—recording interviews with cops and narcos, visiting grave sites and murder scenes". ga('ec:setAction', 'add');
It argued that it is America's "weak control of automatic weapons" and its "supply [of] guns and money" that fuel the bloodshed in Mexico. People tend to shudder at the fact that Mexican gangsters have rocket-propelled grenades. Book Title: El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels. But most importantly, Booth mentioned that El Narco "tells us how we got here". The conflict spawned by El Narco has given rise to paramilitary death squads battling from Guatemala to the Texas border (and sometimes beyond). [15] Moreover, The Boston Globe said that Grillo is one of those authors that "does not forget" the newspaper headlines in Mexico's drug war that often "feel unreal" and go "beyond comprehension". Title notwithstanding, this latest from the National Book Award–winning author is no guidebook to getting woke.
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Or is it part of a worldwide shadow economy that threatens Mexico's democracy? They start because people feel inferior, without rights, angry and frustrated.
GENERAL CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES [18], CNNMéxico stated that Grillo has been in "more crime scenes than he can remember", and that his book includes "interviews with hitmen, members of the cartels, politicians and police officers, and people trapped in the crossfire". What is El Narco?El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands, from bullet-riddled barrios to marijuana-covered mountains. There have been more than 34,000 casualties in the Mexican drug war of the past decade.
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