Książka autorstwa brytyjskiego dziennikarza Ioan Grillo pracującego dla meksykańskiej gazety opisuje krwawą walkę baronów narkotykowych o kontrolę nad handlem heroiną, kokainą i marihuaną, a także walkę władz Meksyku z przerażającą spiralą przestępczości mafii narkotykowych. Autor wciąga czytelnika narracją i fabularyzowanymi scenami wydarzeń, demonstrując kulisy dramatu, zastraszającej korupcji policji, bezgranicznej bezwzględności przestępców i niewyobrażalnego przepływu milionów dolarów. Będąc w centrum wydarzeń Ioan Grillo błyskotliwie definiuje przyczyny wojny narkotykowej, która tylko w ciągu ostatnich pięciu lat pochłonęła prawie 40 tysięcy istnień ludzkich wśród policji, przestępców i ludności cywilnej. Wojny, która spowodowała, że świat usłyszał o 1,5 milionowym mieście Juarez jako najniebezpieczniejszym miejscu na globie.
Ioan Grillo Książki
In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a crystal meth maker is venerated as a saint while imposing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns and humans. Who are these new masters of death? What personal qualities and life experiences have made them into such bloodthirsty leaders of men? What do they represent and stand for? What has happened in the Americas to allow them to grow and flourish? Author of the critically acclaimed El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001, and gained access to every level of the cartel chain-of-command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. Moving between militia-controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers, Grillo provides a new and disturbing understanding of a war that has spiralled out of control - one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now. Gangster Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean.
A searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade. Guns from America reach more than 130 countries, and inundate Mexico, with over 200,000 guns every year crossing the border and arming the drug cartels. In this groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, master of reportage Ioan Grillo delves into the enormous black market for firearms in the Americas: he travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles of gun shows and gun shops, hangs out on Baltimore street corners, talks to federal agents who have infiltrated gangs, and visits the ATF gun tracing centre in West Virginia. Along the way, Grillo lays bare the many ways that guns slip through the legal cracks and into the hands of criminals, fuelling violence among Mexico's powerful cartels and beyond. At a time when debates around gun control are rife, this gripping exposé draws a startling a connection between guns and the global drug trade, revealing them to be key accessories in our epidemics of addiction