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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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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"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.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade that reveals how an industry founded by farmers and village healers became dominated by cartels and kingpins. The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, "El Chapo," from the New York Times reporter whose coverage of his trial went viral Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, he was one of the most dangerous men in the world. His fearless climb to power, his brutality, his charm, his taste for luxury, his penchant for disguise, his multiple dramatic prison escapes, his...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of San Fernando, near the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair...
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
The origin, life and fall of El Chapo Guzmán is already written. The also called The Lord of the Great Power and listed as" the most powerful drug trafficker in the world "closes his story and with it, a time of war and murder in the country: His escapes from the high security penalties Puente Grande and Almoloya and his possible links with senior officials aroused an unusual interest in society: Who protects him ? Who does he really work for? The...
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Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Dos espectaculares capturas. Dos sorprendentes huidas. La vida del poderoso narcotraficante Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, alias El Chapo, lejos llegó de su humilde niñez en la pequeña población rural de La Tuna en Sinaloa, para convertirse en todo un varón, un recio macho con las agallas para ser el capo más rico, poderoso y buscado del planeta. Andrés López López una vez más adentra a sus lectores al bajo mundo del narcotráfico....
11) Río subterráneo
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
"En la hermosa ciudad de Mérida (en la península de Yucatán), una ola de robos de arte sacro, asesinatos de sacerdotes y secuestros de chicas adolescentes marcan el inicio de esta novela de acción trepidante en la que varias historias se entrelazan. El detective Salvador Xiu será el encargado de esclarecer los crímines pero conforme la investigación avanza las implicaciones se vuelven catastróficas. Una secta de fanáticos pretende desatar...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The exclusive inside story of the lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo - the world's most wanted drug kingpin who evaded capture for more than a decade. A cinematic crime story following the relentless investigative work of Cole Merrell and his team unfolds at breakneck speed, taking the reader behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States...
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Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Two women who escaped the international drug trade and who are married to the highest level drug traffickers to become U.S. informants share never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.
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Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"This is the true story of how El Chapo built the world's wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking operation, based on months' worth of trial testimony and dozens of interviews with cartel gunmen, Mexican journalists and political figures, Chapo's family members, and the DEA agents who brought him down. Over the course of three decades, El Chapo was responsible for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, meth, and fentanyl...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"DEA Agent Jack Riley tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic. Jack Riley, grandson of a Chicago cop known for using his fists, was born to be a drug warrior. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, who farmed marijuana and opium poppies as a teenager in Mexico, was born to be a drug lord. Their worlds collided when Riley, a career special agent with...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Todo lo que no sabías del narcotraficante más buscado del mundo contado por los criminales que lo traicionaron. El juicio del hombre más buscado por la policía estadounidense: un repaso de sus actividades en el narcotráfico, sus venganzas y los nexos con políticos y delincuentes. Un retrato severo, implacable, de El Chapo Guzmán en la corte de Estados Unidos. Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul fue de las pocas periodistas en el mundo que cubrió todo...
18) Cartel land
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the Mexican state of Michoacán Dr. José 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, 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 our border. Heineman embeds himself n the heart of darkness...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Una combinación de las películas Manhunt, Killing Pablo y Zero Dark Thirty, esta sensacional obra de misterio, y de alta tecnología de investigación, de Andrew Hogan y Douglas Century es una crónica impresionante de un capítulo en la guerra contra las drogas en el siglo veinte: la experiencia exclusiva de un agente federal estadounidense y sus ocho años de cacería tras El Chapo -- el capo de la droga más buscado del mundo, que evadió a...
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