FREE EL NARCO: THE BLOODY RISE OF MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS PDF Ioan Grillo | 336 pages | 17 Jan 2013 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 9781408822432 | English | London, United Kingdom El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels - Ioan Grillo - Google Books Grillo's book draws a portrait of the Mexican drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the past couple of decades. The book explains how the cartels have created paramilitary death squads with tens of thousands of armed men from the country of Guatemala to the Texan border. The US edition came out two months later, bearing a different subtitle. According to the biography section in his official webpage, Grillo grew up in the coastal city of BrightonEngland —famous for its pink candy, pebble beaches, colleges and bubbling night clubs. And according to the author, few people there realize where the substances they are intaking come from or what they might give or takeaway from those countries. Four of the corpses sprawl over a shiny-new Dodge Ram El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels truck that has been pierced by so many caps it resembles a cheese El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels. The cadavers are twisted and contorted El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels the unnatural poses of the dead; arms arch backward over spines, legs spread out sideways; the pattern of bodies that fall like rag dolls when bullets strike. After arriving at too many murder scenes, I often felt numb staring at the lead-filled flesh spread out on the concrete, dirt roads and car seats. The images all blur into one. But then little details come back: the twists of elbows over backs, heads over shoulders. It is these patterns that come into my mind when I think about the murder scenes; and these patterns then filter into bad dreams when I am sleeping in a bed a thousand miles away. The state policemen had hit a red stop light next to a shopping center when the triggermen attacked. The assassins shoot from the side and back unleashing bullets in split seconds. A customized Kalashnikov with a circular clip can unload rounds in 10 seconds. This is lightning war. People tend to shudder at the fact that Mexican gangsters have rocket-propelled grenades. But the AK is far more lethal. Below is an excerpt from Time magazine published on 23 October It is the confession of a cartel member that is imprisoned: [13]. It may have been vivid and raw. But it felt somehow surreal, like Gonzalo was watching these terrible acts from above. Like it was someone else who had firefights with ski- masked federal police in broad daylight. Someone else who stormed into homes and dragged away men from crying wives and mothers. Someone else who duct-taped victims to chairs and starved and beat them for days. Someone else who clasped a machete and began to hack off their craniums while they were still living. But it was all real. He was a different man when he did those things, Gonzalo tells me. He had smoked crack cocaine and drunk whisky every day, had enjoyed power in a country where the poor are so powerless, had a latest model truck and could pay for houses in cash, had four wives and children scattered all over I felt nothing. I had no compassion for anybody," he says, speaking slowly, swallowing some words. The Global Post published a portion of the book where Grillo interviews an American agent who infiltrates a drug cartel: [14]. Alongside other veterans, Daniel would buzz around the state in a helicopter carrying an M16 automatic rifle and raiding marijuana plantations. Most were run by El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels and located inside national parks and forests and included some huge farms with up to twelve thousand plants. We hit the ground first, kneeling down and we fired back, and they were gone. These people have balls, they are El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels. Customs Service busting runners as they came over the border. Because of the huge quantity of traffic at Tijuana-San Diego, agents can only toss a tiny percentage of vehicles. So the key for Daniel and other agents was to try to read people and smell who was dirty. Daniel found he had a special talent for spotting smugglers. I look at them and see if the person El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels is driving does not match the car or the car does not match the person. I get close up to their face and say, 'How are you doing? According to BlogcriticsEl 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". But most importantly, Booth mentioned that El Narco "tells us how we got here". Tim Padgett of the Time magazine noted that Grillo "explores that world as deeply as few journalists have dared;" nonetheless, Padgett said that the historical context of the book not only indicts "Mexican and Latin American politicos but U. The Kirkus Reviews noted that the book emphasizes the "chilling account of the murderous growth of Mexican drug cartels", and concluded that El Narco is a "valuable contribution to the literature of the Drug War". It argued that the book shows how the Mexican drug war has "explosive potential consequences for every American, and Ioan Grillo's book shows you why". According to the newspaper, the book engulfs an account of the "rivers of blood in which its citizens are drowning", since Mexico's drug war "is a case study in the way brutal mafia capitalism has morphed into a criminal insurgency, the like of which is spreading 'like bushfire' in the Americas". Reformaa Mexican newspaper, said that Grillo used the "closest information possible to his object of work", which means that he ran through serious "threats" to get his work done. 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. S" newspapers. They start because people feel inferior, without rights, angry and frustrated. They want something bigger in their lives. And you only need a group people with moral depression to convince them that El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels and dying spectacularly means glory. Islamic terrorist, kamikaze squads, El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels gangs, the cartels. They were all children at one time. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 28 January InSight Crime. Washington Office on Latin America. Diario de Yucatan in Spanish. Retrieved 11 May Proceso in Spanish. Archived from the original on 10 September Retrieved 6 September Texas Book Festival. El Siglo de Torreon in Spanish. Bloomsbury Press. New York Journal of Books. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. Retrieved 12 May Bloomsbury Publishing. Powell's Books. The West Australian. El Narco Book by Ioan Grillo. Archived from the original on 11 July San Antonio Express-News. The New Yorker. Globe Corner Bookstore. Archived from the original on 26 June The Independent. Mother Jones. Mexico's Drug War. Archived from the original on 23 January Borderland Beat. BBC News. The Guardian. Los Angeles Times. Mexican drug war —present. Names in italics represent dead or arrested individuals. Federal forces. Los Mazatlecos South Pacific Cartel. La Familia Cartel. Gulf Cartel. Los Metros Los Rojos. Knights Templar Cartel. La Resistencia. Sinaloa Cartel. Tijuana Cartel. Juan José Esparragoza Moreno - Wikipedia Please note that this product is not available for purchase from Bloomsbury. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count- 23, dead in five years - and sheer horror beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is creeping northward. El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels zone. 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. The narco cartels are a threat to the Mexican government, and their violence has now reached as far as North Carolina. El Narco is required reading for anyone concerned about one of the most important news stories of the decade. Ioan Grillo goes much, much deeper. He explains why El Narco threatens the soul of this beautiful country. See larger image. This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By using our website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. It looks like you are located in Australia or New Zealand Close. Visit the Australia site Continue on UK site. Visit the Australia site. Continue on UK site. El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels - Ioan Grillo - Google книги A Project of the John C.