Mexico citybased journalist grillo has reported from the region since 2001. Mexicans sometimes lay the blame for the drug war on the united states, which is the source of the vast amounts of money that flow into the drug cartels, corrupting mexican society. Ioan grillo has reported on latin america since 2001 for international media including time magazine, reuters, cnn, the associated press, pbs newshour, the houston chronicle, cbc, and the sunday telegraph. A gripping, sobering account of how mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nations democracy and reaches across to the united states. Grillo is an experts on the drug cartels and their history. Inside mexicos criminal insurgency by ioan grillo is an outstanding chronicle of the mexican drug war. Although grillo is british he seems to have spent much of his life covering the cartels. Additionally, the houston chronicle said that blog del narco is a gritty, frontrow seat to mexicos drug war.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Steve coll, the world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in mexico. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding why there is such a drug war, how it started, and why its not going to. Its my job to say that your fears about mexico are overblown, that the media is mongering fear, that our vision of modern mexico is skewed by the press, that. A mexican writer who penned such an exhaustive history would probably have been killed. Accomplished, chilling account of the murderous growth of mexican drug cartels. As an editor for a travel site and managing editor for the peoples guide to mexico, one of my goals is to, you know, encourage people to go to mexico. Blog del narco, an internet sensation dubbed a frontrow seat to mexicos agony over drugs, has become a mustread for authorities, drug gangs and ordinary people because it lays bare, day after day, the horrific violence censored by the mainstream media. The bloody rise of mexican drug cartels by grillo, ioan isbn. It is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. A new cartel appears to be setting itself up in the state of mexico, according to security officials, which could mean more violence brought on by disputes over control of the territory.