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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerry Langton |
ISBN: | 9781118008058 1118008057 111801426X 9781118014264 1118014251 9781118014257 1118014278 9781118014271 |
OCLC Number: | 972839692 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | viii, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Deadly Playground -- 2. The Eagle Eats the Snake -- 3.A Mexican-born Emperor -- 4. The Rise of the Drug Cartels -- 5. Enemies of the State -- 6. Trouble in Paradise -- 7. Calderon Versus the Cartels -- 8. Battling the Beltran Leyva Cartel -- 9. Carnage in 2009 -- 10. The Roll Call of Death -- 11. The War Expands -- 12. Exporting Drugs and Crime -- 13. The Violence Escalates -- 14."A Phase of Very Intense Violence ..." -- 15. Mexican Cartel Violence Moves North. |
Responsibility: | Jerry Langton. |
Abstract:
A frightening look at Mexico's new power elite-the Mexican drug cartels The members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor of heroin and cocaine to the U.S. and Canada.
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- Drug traffic -- Mexico.
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- Drug traffic -- Canada.
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- Heroin industry -- Mexico.
- Gangs -- Mexico.
- Drogues -- Trafic -- Mexique.
- Drogues -- Trafic -- États-Unis.
- Drogues -- Trafic -- Canada.
- Gangs -- Mexique.
- Gangs -- États-Unis.
- Cocaïne -- Industrie -- Mexique.
- Héroïne -- Industrie -- Mexique.
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- Drug traffic.
- Gangs.
- Heroin industry.
- Canada.
- Mexico.
- United States.