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Discusses how governments from around the world, including Bulgaria, Cuba, Nicaragua, Syria and others, have, over the last 25 years, initiated, developed and in some cases virtually dominated the drug business to finance terrorist activities. The author of this book bases her research and findings around the point that unless we recognise the geo-political aspects of the situation, the drug problem will be fought on the wrong fronts in the wrong way and with little chance of victory.

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With over 20 years in the narcotics business, Australian-born Steven Valentino knows a thing or two about drug trafficking and the risks involved. Dropping out of school as a teenager, Valentino would later further his education in a California state prison, but the subjects they offer in one of America’s hardest prisons won’t look good on your job resume – unless you’re applying for a job with the Sinaloa cartel. Four years after arriving in Los Angeles with just a few dollars in his pocket, Valentino had carved his name deep into the US Ecstasy market. He owned the fastest cars, lived in a beachfront mansion, rubbed shoulders with Hollywood’s elite, and had Charlotte, a stunning Swedish model, by his side. However, in the underworld, things can go wrong quickly, and he became a fugitive of the United States, hiding in the depths of the Colombian jungle. Inspired by his first book, Pills of God, Valentino gives an new, untold version of the crimes he committed that were previously restricted to tell while serving a lengthy prison sentence. This sensational story places the reader in the shoes of a major narcotics producer and reveals his motives to become one of the largest Ecstasy manufacturer in history. Valentino shares intimate details of his life – from a bully kid to becoming a major drug producer for the Sinaloa cartel and his close relationship with a CIA official who helped him traffic $21 billion of narcotics around the world. Fueled by love, greed, betrayal, and revenge, Valentino’s astonishing story is captivating. It will transport you away from the world you know and expose the mindset of a drug trafficker who, in the end, had nothing to lose...

Those who know about how spirituality plays into the world of drug smuggling have likely heard of Santa Muerte, Jesus Malverde, and Santería, but the details of the more obscure African religions and Latin American folk saints and cults often remain a mystery. While the vast majority of these religions are practiced by law-abiding citizens with no connections to the drug trade, their religious beliefs and practices are often appropriated by drug cartels and used to psychologically empower members of these organizations. Therefore, knowledge about narco-cults and spirituality related to the drug trade can be incredibly useful to narcotics officers, military and intelligence agents, and even the average street cop. Narco-Cults: Understanding the Use of Afro-Caribbean and Mexican Religious Cultures in the Drug Wars looks at the growing phenomenon of narco-cults and the use of indigenous spiritual traditions among drug trafficking organizations. Based on two decades of experience from one of the top consultants in the field, it provides investigative agencies with a means of identifying symbols, rituals, artifacts, and customs endemic to various drug trafficking organizations. The book features illustrations of altars, shrines, and tools along with detailed descriptions of their cultural significance and practical application in rituals and customs. Derived from empirical research, this sourcebook provides reliable information taken from ethnographic fieldwork, police reports, and interviews with practitioners. The knowledge contained herein will help build cultural competency among the many agencies investigating drug crimes.

Discusses how governments from around the world, including Bulgaria, Cuba, Nicaragua, Syria and others, have, over the last 25 years, initiated, developed and in some cases virtually dominated the drug business to finance terrorist activities. The author of this book bases her research and findings around the point that unless we recognise the geo-political aspects of the situation, the drug problem will be fought on the wrong fronts in the wrong way and with little chance of victory.

Those who know about how spirituality plays into the world of drug smuggling have likely heard of Santa Muerte, Jesus Malverde, and Santería, but the details of the more obscure African religions and Latin American folk saints and cults often remain a mystery. While the vast majority of these religions are practiced by law-abiding citizens with no connections to the drug trade, their religious beliefs and practices are often appropriated by drug cartels and used to psychologically empower members of these organizations. Therefore, knowledge about narco-cults and spirituality related to the drug trade can be incredibly useful to narcotics officers, military and intelligence agents, and even the average street cop. Narco-Cults: Understanding the Use of Afro-Caribbean and Mexican Religious Cultures in the Drug Wars looks at the growing phenomenon of narco-cults and the use of indigenous spiritual traditions among drug trafficking organizations. Based on two decades of experience from one of the top consultants in the field, it provides investigative agencies with a means of identifying symbols, rituals, artifacts, and customs endemic to various drug trafficking organizations. The book features illustrations of altars, shrines, and tools along with detailed descriptions of their cultural significance and practical application in rituals and customs. Derived from empirical research, this sourcebook provides reliable information taken from ethnographic fieldwork, police reports, and interviews with practitioners. The knowledge contained herein will help build cultural competency among the many agencies investigating drug crimes.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that, for over forty years, has been instrumental in shaping narco-culture in Mexico and the US borderlands. Identifying classics in its mammoth catalogue and analyzing select films at length, Rashotte outlines the genre's history and aesthetic criteria. He approaches its history as an alternative to mainstream representation of the drug war and considers how its vernacular aesthetic speaks to the anxieties and desires of Latina/o audiences by celebrating regional cultures while exploring the dynamics of global transition. Despite recent federal prohibitions, narco cinema endures as a popular folk art because it reflects distinctively the experiences of those uprooted by the forces of globalization and critiques those forces in ways mainstream cinema has failed.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that, for over forty years, has been instrumental in shaping narco-culture in Mexico and the US borderlands. Identifying classics in its mammoth catalogue and analyzing select films at length, Rashotte outlines the genre's history and aesthetic criteria. He approaches its history as an alternative to mainstream representation of the drug war and considers how its vernacular aesthetic speaks to the anxieties and desires of Latina/o audiences by celebrating regional cultures while exploring the dynamics of global transition. Despite recent federal prohibitions, narco cinema endures as a popular folk art because it reflects distinctively the experiences of those uprooted by the forces of globalization and critiques those forces in ways mainstream cinema has failed.

El periodista britanico Ioan Grillo, que durante una decada ha informado de la guerrilla de las drogas mexicana desde primera linea del frente, nos conduce al corazon mismo del narcotrafico para ofrecernos un retrato tan brutal como insoslayable de la insurgencia que amenaza el pais. Asesinos a sueldo, extorsion, asesinatos en masa y terror generalizado tienen en Mexico un mismo nombre: el narco, una vasta organizacion criminal cuya siniestra sombra se proyecta sobre todo el pais. / The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006. It draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the last decade. El Narco is not a gang; its a movement and an industry.

The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is among the world’s ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazine’s 2009 billionaire list. With his massive wealth, his army of professional killers, and a network of informants that reaches into the highest levels of government, catching Guzman was considered impossible—until now. Newly isolated by infighting amongst the cartels, and with Mexican and DEA authorities closing in, El Chapo is vulnerable as never before. Newsweek correspondent Malcolm Beith has spent years reporting on the drug wars and follows the chase with full access to senior officials and exclusive interviews with soldiers and drug traffickers in the region, including members of Guzman’s cartel. The Last Narco combines fearless reporting with the story of El Chapo’s legendary rise from a poor farming family to the “capo” of the world’s largest drug empire. The Last Narco is essential reading about one of the most pressing and dramatic stories in the news today—a true crime thriller happening in real time.

El periodista britanico Ioan Grillo, que durante una decada ha informado de la guerrilla de las drogas mexicana desde primera linea del frente, nos conduce al corazon mismo del narcotrafico para ofrecernos un retrato tan brutal como insoslayable de la insurgencia que amenaza el pais. Asesinos a sueldo, extorsion, asesinatos en masa y terror generalizado tienen en Mexico un mismo nombre: el narco, una vasta organizacion criminal cuya siniestra sombra se proyecta sobre todo el pais. / The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006. It draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the last decade. El Narco is not a gang; its a movement and an industry.

The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters and drug agents at the problem. But in secret, Washington is confused and divided about what to do. Who are these mysterious figures tearing Mexico apart? they wonder. What is El Narco?El Narco draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the last decade. El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-growing mountains. And it has created paramilitary death squads with tens of thousands of men-at-arms from Guatemala to the Texas border. Journalist

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The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is among the world’s ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazine’s 2009 billionaire list. With his massive wealth, his army of professional killers, and a network of informants that reaches into the highest levels of government, catching Guzman was considered impossible until now. Newly isolated by infighting amongst the cartels, and with Mexican and DEA authorities closing in, El Chapo is vulnerable as never before. Newsweek correspondent Malcolm Beith has spent years reporting on the drug wars and follows the chase with full access to senior officials and exclusive interviews with soldiers and drug traffickers in the region, including members of Guzman’s cartel. The Last Narco combines fearless reporting with the story of El Chapo’s legendary rise from a poor farming family to the capo” of the world’s largest drug empire. The Last Narco is essential reading about one of the most pressing and dramatic stories in the news today a true crime thriller happening in real time.

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Testimonios conmovedores y terribles de mujeres que, por decisión propia o por azares del destino, vivieron las consecuencias de encontrarse cara a cara con el mundo del narcotráfico. De Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Premio Internacional a la Libertad de Expresión, el autor de Los morros del narco. Obra finalista del Premio Rodolfo Walsh. Belleza, poder y violencia. Historias reales de mujeres en el narcotráfico mexicano. Javier Valdez ofrece un libro impactante que va del reportaje a la crónica para rescatar del silencio, de la nota roja y del olvido, a numerosas mujeres que viven entre las balas momentos cruciales de su vida. Amantes de capos, amigas de ellos o familiares, son mujeres con una verdad ardiente y dolorosa, que buscan el glamour y la hermosura, el poder económico y la huida de su realidad; mujeres que viven en el límite de la ley, la violencia y de la muerte.

Traces the rise of violent drug cartels in Mexico from the 1970s to the present and describes the involvement of the government, the police, the military, and business in the world of illegal narcotics smuggling.

Javier Valdez, autor de Miss Narco, Con una granada en la boca y Morros del narco, vuelve con una investigación sobre la vida de los niños que han quedado sin hogar como efecto colateral de la guerra contra el crimen organizado. Un libro repleto de testimonios desgarradores en el cual Javier Valdéz Cárdenas plantea una serie de preguntas pertinentes:¿qué harán los niños que han quedado huérfanos tras los más de 100 mil muertos que ha dejado la batalla contra el crimen organizado?¿Dónde está el futuro de México, si hay toda una generación que ha crecido al calor de la violencia?¿Por qué son pocos los que hablan de esta problemática?¿Qué se está haciendo en el país para cobijar a un grupo tan vulnerable? Si en Los morros del narco, Valdéz narró las historias de quienes súbitamente caen en las garras de la violencia y son reclutados por el crimen organizado, en esta entrega el sagaz periodista indaga las historias de los niños y niñas que han sufrido situación de calle o han terminado en albergues en lugares remotos del país. Triste, desoladora, muy real, pero sin dejar de lado un espacio para la esperanza, ésta es una crónica de lo que pasa todos los días en México. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A book full of heartbreaking testimonials in which Javier Valdez Cárdenas proposes a series of pertinent questions: what will become of the children who have been orphaned by over 100,000 deaths caused in the battle against organized crime? Where is Mexico's future, if there is an entire generation that has grown up in the heat of the violence? Why do so few people talk about this predicament? What is being done in Mexico to give shelter to this vulnerable group?

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped.Martínez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes.

Cuando usamos el termino narco cultura probablemente estamos siendo manipulados por el sistema para usar las etiquetas que el mismo sistema crea,. Si usted supiera la historia del narco en México sin duda usaría el término Narco Estado, no somos los que difundimos el problema del narco los causantes, si no quien protege y solapa a los capos quien es responsable, las historias por mi narradas cuentan la vida de hombres que no fueran nada sin la protección Política Institucional, de un humilde campesino utilizado por funcionarios para acrecentar su personal fortuna, los nombres de los personajes que hicieron Alcaldes, Diputados, Senadores, patrocinaron gobernadores y Jefes de Estado se encuentran las notas históricas de los más populares diarios con hechos sangrientos relaciónados, casi nunca o en muy pocos casos, los políticos han sido acusados de algún cargo por su participación en el narco Estado, los hombres ya están muertos y los Carteles van mutando, sin embargo los políticos van de ayuntamientos al palacio legislativo brincando de partido en partido y de cargo en cargo, esa es mi definición de lo que usted erróneamente llama Narco Cultura, yo acusaria, Narco-estado.