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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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"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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2021.
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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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The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
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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.
7) Cartel land
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"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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AGUILAR
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Español
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El presente libro recoge una muestra de su trabajo periodístico a lo largo de los volúmenes publicados por Aguilar: crónicas, investigaciones, reportajes, testimonios, escritos con sangre, rabia, dolor y un profundo sentido humano. El 15 de mayo murió asesinado en Sinaloa el periodista Javier Valdez Cárdenas. Autor de una serie de libros memorables sobre la Guerra del narco, sobre la tragedia que viven cada día los familiares en busca de su...
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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Until now, the worst of the "war on drugs" has been kept quiet or in the realm of rumors: the real degree of brutality, the logic of the deals made, the accounts of massacres, the explanation of the attacks. Through deep documentary research and rigorous reporting, Juan Alberto Cedillo offers an unprecedented investigation that sheds light on these phenomena and clarifies fundamental questions about the fight that is raging, particularly in northern...
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Español
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"La autora se adentra en el Cártel de Sinaloa a través del relato de Vicentillo, quien exhibe de manera descarnada cómo funciona el sistema interno que da vida a la organización criminal, la violencia, las mil formas de traficar droga y la complicidad entre políticos, empresarios y fuerzas del orden. Pero sobre todo devela el perfil de quien durante el último medio siglo ha sido el rey del narcotráfico. Quien nunca ha pisado la cárcel y quien...
15) El fixer
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Aguilar
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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La odisea, marcada por la adrenalina y el terror, que debe cruzar un Fixer para ingresar a las entrañas de los cárteles de la droga con el objetivo de lograr accesos a periodistas extranjeros. Numerosos periodistas norteamericanos, alemanes, ingleses, franceses... están interesados en cubrir los avatares del crimen organizado en México, pero la primera inquietud es cómo establecer un contacto con jefes del narco, con huachicoleros, con secuestradores,...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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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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Aguilar
Pub. Date
2015.
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Español
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"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....
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Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Trevino, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that...
19) Inca gold
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Nearly five centuries ago a fleet of boats landed mysteriously on an island in an inland sea. There, an ancient Andean people hid a golden hoard greater than that of any pharaoh, then they and their treasure vanished into history -- until now. DIRK PITT dives into an ancient sacrificial pool, saving two American archaeologists from certain drowning. But his death-defying rescue is only the beginning, as it draws the intrepid Pitt into a vortex of...
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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"En el corazón de la capital - La ciudad que alguna vez estuvo "prohibida" para los capos del Narco - nació La Unión Tepito, el primer y único cartel chilango. No es una pandilla, no es una célula de un grupo mayor ni tampoco una banda doméstica, sino un auténtico cártel que logró apoderarse del centro del país, justo en las narices de las más altas autoridades. ¿Cómo lo hizo? Ejerciendo una violencia como nunca se había visto, con el...
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