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The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters--a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator--whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.
Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just when Colombians were ready to move past the murderous legacy of the country's cartels, a new, bloody chapter...
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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account...
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"These are the true confessions of an assassin. Martin Corona started out life seemingly as American as a midcentury American kid could be. He was the son of a US marine, bouncing from one warm beach base to another. But the combination of an abusive father, ill-advised medication, and some bad choices before he was even a teenager led him into a brutal, murderous outlaw life. In and out of prison, Corona, aka 'Nite Owl, ' soon came into contact...
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"A highly decorated veteran DEA agent recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorism What exactly is undercover? From a law-enforcement perspective, undercover is the art of skillfully eliciting incriminating statements. From a personal and psychological standpoint, it's the dark art of gaining trust-then manipulating that trust. In the simplest terms, it's playing a chess game...
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The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.
What it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? In the border town of Laredo, Texas, Gabriel and his friend Bart abandon promising futures for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. Mexican-born Detective Robert Garcia...
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Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border-"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"-as the Norco-war escalates to a fever pitch there.
In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape...
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"When a Senator's daughter is kidnapped by a mysterious group with ties to the supernatural . . . it's clearly a job for SEAL TEAM 666. As Triple Six gets involved, they discover links to the Zeta Cartel, a newly discovered temple beneath Mexico City, and a group known as Followers of the Flayed One. International politics, cross-border narco-terrorism, and an insidious force operating inside the team soon threaten to derail the mission. Forced to...
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To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become icons, glorified by musicians who praise their fame and success. In this new constituency, they represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by money, drugs, and violence. The film is an explosive look at the drug cartels' pop culture influence on both sides of the border as seen through the eyes of an LA narcocorrido singer and...
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When organized crime appeared in the Mexican community of Ostula, repression, murders and enforced disappearances soon became part of the daily life. The entire community was displaced and the drug cartel took their land. In 2014, Community members with the help of armed self-defense groups returned to Xayakalan, a town they founded near Ostula. Recovering Paradise documents the community's fight to live in peace on their homeland.
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The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a drug trafficking organization, she...
12) Murder city
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Examines the escalation in drug-related crime in the Mexican/U.S. border city of Juárez.
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En estos textos, hilvanados poco a poco tras amargos amaneceres detrás de los barrotes, se describen hechos cotidianos simples de un hombre simple, llevado al extremo de su condición humana ... He aquí una crónica desgarradora que conduce de la mano al lector a través de los intrincados y hediondos pasillos de la cárcel federal de Puente Grande, donde durante tres años Jesús Lemus vivió una auténtica temporada en el infierno y padeció los...
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Rodrigo Angulo, periodista de vieja estirpe, recibe por correo electrónico la invitación más estremecedora de toda su vida: conocer de primera fuente el núcleo operativo del narcoterrorismo. Sabe perfectamente que existe la entrada, pero que la salida es sólo con la muerte. Angulo, un hombre que por casualidad se convierte en el mensajero de uno de los carteles de la droga más poderosos, conocerá la historia del lugarteniente más inteligente,...
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"Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations, castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its northern...
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Lefty Mendieta novel volume 3
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Elmer Mendoza "an important Mexican writer" (The Washington Post) returns with Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta who teams up with the head of the Pacific Cartel to confront a killer delivering death to every dentist in the region. It's Christmas in Culiacan and Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta can't believe his luck. An old flame has returned with his teenage son he knew nothing about. Happiness seems to finally be at hand for our careworn hero. The only snag...
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"Son niños y niñas de tres, cinco o nueve años, muchachas descalzas, adolescentes perdidos,con casa o desplazados, con ilusiones o intensamente deprimidos, son huérfanos que perdieron a sus padres por la violencia y los levantones, por tortura o asesinato. Son hijos de narcos o de policías, de trabajadores del campo o de maestros, hijos desolados de oficinistas, mecánicos, amas de casa, comerciantes...son víctimas de la violencia que carcome...
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Chronicles the rapid decline of the city of Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, beginning in 2008 when more than twenty police officers were murdered, describing how drugs, globalization, corruption, and immigration have lead to increased violence and murder and created a dangerous city where crime runs rampant.
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Una intensa crónica que relata la vida de dos adolescentes mexicano-americanos que son reclutados para ser sicarios de la Zetas. Gabriel Cardona y Rsalio Reta crecen en Laredo, Texas, en ambientes llenos de violencia. Ante la falta de oportunidades, se unen a las filas de una de las organizaciones criminales más peligrosas y sádicas de la actualidad. Mientras tanto, Robert García, un detective de la DEA, se didica en cuerpo y alma a combatir el...