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Gangster Warlords - Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

English · Paperback

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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a crystal meth maker is venerated as a saint while imposing Old Testament justice on his enemies.A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns and humans. Who are these new masters of death? What personal qualities and life experiences have made them into such bloodthirsty leaders of men? What do they represent and stand for? What has happened in the Americas to allow them to grow and flourish?Author of the critically acclaimed E arco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency , Ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001, and gained access to every level of the cartel chain-of-command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. Moving between militia-controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers, Grillo provides a new and disturbing understanding of a war that has spiralled out of control - one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now. Gangster Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean.

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Authors Ioan Grillo, Grillo Ioan
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.01.2017
 
EAN 9781408845912
ISBN 978-1-4088-4591-2
No. of pages 384
Dimensions 130 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
Subjects Non-fiction book

Latin America, True Crime, TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, Reportage, journalism or collected columns

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