This is a cutting-edge true crime history detailing the inexorable rise of the ruthless Mexican drug cartels who have taken violence to new levels and plunged large parts of their home country into chaos as part of their strategy to seize control of the world's most lucrative drug market. The book takes you from the story of the Gulf Cartel, founded in the 1930s to smuggle alcohol into the US during Prohibition, to the frightening private army Los Zetas, who are the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and dangerous ...
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This is a cutting-edge true crime history detailing the inexorable rise of the ruthless Mexican drug cartels who have taken violence to new levels and plunged large parts of their home country into chaos as part of their strategy to seize control of the world's most lucrative drug market. The book takes you from the story of the Gulf Cartel, founded in the 1930s to smuggle alcohol into the US during Prohibition, to the frightening private army Los Zetas, who are the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and dangerous gang operating out of Mexico.
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Very Good. 4to. 128pp, index, further reading, num col ills. Or pictorial card. Very slight rubbing. During the 1980s and 1990s, law enforcement blocked the route used by the Colombian cartels who turned to the Mexican traffickers for help. The Mexican crime syndicates took over the Latin-American drug trade, controlling 90% of the cocaine entering the US. Today they are involved in human trafficking, gun running, exploitation of immigrants, kidnapping, intimidation, mindless violence, murder, mutilation, money laundering, and corruption at every level of society.
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