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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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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English
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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.
Author
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.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Wolfe family novels volume 2
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization....
18) Heli
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When Heli's twelve-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico's brutal drug ear, Heli must do everything it takes to protect his family. As he descends further into inescapable and nightmarish corruption and violence, it threatens to tear his life apart.
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
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
AGUILAR
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
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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