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Pub. Date
2020.
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"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time...
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Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the veins of people across the United States.
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The young Teresa Mendoza gets involved in the dangerous world of drug-trafficking which caused the death of her friend. Her constant running away leads her to Spain where she looks for a place and an identity.
La joven Teresa Mendoza se ve envuelta en una peligrosa red de narcotraficantes a causa de la muerte de su compañero. Su huida constante la llevará a España, donde buscará un lugar y una identidad.
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Español
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"Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido periodístico de Anabel Hernández en su incesante búsqeuda por entender el complejo imperio del crimen organizado y los cárteles de la droga en México, los cuales desde hace décadas tienen sumida a la nación en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los días son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del sexo femenino" -- Back of cover.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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"El Narco" draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the last decade. This piercing book joins testimonies from inside the cartels with firsthand dispatches and unsparing analysis. The devastation may be south of the Rio Grande, but America is knee-deep in this conflict.
12) Miss Narco: belleza, poder y violencia : historias reales de mujeres en el narcotráfico mexicano
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Real stories of women in the Mexican drug trafficking trade.
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Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
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In the last six years, more than 80,000 people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
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Award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada depicts the brutality of Mexico's drug warthrough the quiet that falls between the moments of violence. The film follows a night watchman in a Culiacan cemetery, a place populated with large mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. Almada's beautiful portrait of daily life in the cemetery sits at the intersection between those who live there and those who rest there.
19) Cartel Land
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the Mexican state of Michoacan, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley - a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley - Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across...
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