Gangster warlords

drug dollars, killing fields and the new politics of Latin America

377 pages

English language

Published May 15, 2016 by Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

ISBN:
978-1-4088-4605-6
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OCLC Number:
932591872

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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 El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo …

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Subjects

  • Narco-terrorism
  • Drug traffic
  • Crime

Places

  • Mexico
  • Brazil
  • Jamaica