El Narco
by Ioan Grillo
The drug war by someone who stayed long enough.
you want to understand the cartels as a system rather than a spectacle
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British journalist Ioan Grillo has spent twenty years in Mexico watching the drug war evolve from a law enforcement problem into a parallel state. This is the most honest outside account of what the cartels actually are — where they came from, how they recruit, what they believe, how they relate to the communities they control. Not sensationalism. A genuine attempt to understand a system that the US helped create and profits from pretending to fight.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Mexico
- Themes
- Atrocity Unmasked
