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El Narco de Ioan Grillo

El Narco

Autor Ioan Grillo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2012

Zeci de mii de morți. Gropi comune. Cadavre decapitate în piețe publice. Aceasta nu este ficțiune, ci realitatea imediată a Mexicului. Considerăm că El Narco este o lectură urgentă pentru a înțelege cum grupările de traficanți s-au transformat într-o insurgență criminală care destabilizează un stat întreg. Ioan Grillo nu scrie din confortul unui birou; el raportează din barriourile ciuruite de gloanțe și din munții acoperiți de culturi de marijuana. Ritmul este alert, aproape sufocant. Autorul analizează mecanismul intern al unei industrii care atrage sute de mii de oameni, transformând violența într-o mișcare socială și economică. Merită menționat că această lucrare oferă o perspectivă asupra modului în care cererea de droguri din SUA finanțează direct armamentul cartelurilor. Ca și Narcoland de Anabel Hernández, volumul de față explorează corupția sistemică și brutalitatea extremă, dar dintr-o perspectivă care pune accent pe evoluția istorică a cartelurilor ca entități paramilitare. În contextul operei sale, El Narco pune bazele investigațiilor sale ulterioare. Dacă în Gangster Warlords autorul extinde analiza către întreaga Americă Latină, iar în Blood Gun Money se concentrează pe piața neagră a armelor, aici avem nucleul problemei: nașterea monstrului. Recomandăm acest volum celor care vor să treacă dincolo de titlurile de știri pentru a înțelege infrastructura terorii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781608194018
ISBN-10: 1608194019
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 139 x 210 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui este interesat de geopolitică, jurnalism de investigație și istorie contemporană. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a conflictului mexican, dincolo de miturile din serialele TV. Este un avertisment brutal despre cum crima organizată poate înlocui autoritatea statului. Motivul concret? Analiza lui Grillo despre cum „El Narco” a devenit o identitate culturală, nu doar o activitate ilegală.

Despre autor

Ioan Grillo, jurnalist britanic stabilit în Mexic, relatează despre războiul drogurilor din 2001 pentru publicații de prestigiu precum Time Magazine, New York Times și CNN. Experiența sa de teren este vastă, fiind martor direct la confruntări armate, capturi majore de narcotice și scene ale crimelor orchestrate de carteluri. A intervievat de-a lungul carierei președinți, procurori generali și ambasadori, dar și membri ai organizațiilor criminale, oferind o perspectivă rară și echilibrată asupra crizei de securitate din America Latină. Expertiza sa l-a transformat într-unul dintre cei mai respectați comentatori pe teme de criminalitate transnațională.

Recenzii

"A propulsive account of the blood-soaked machinery of 'El Narco' ... Examining the trade's gunslinging culture, the motivations behind the continual ramping-up of violence, and some potential solutions to the problem, Grillo argues that America's hard-line rhetoric has failed--and that if a game-changing alternative is not implemented, the Mexican state could also fail. Given the savage chaos Grillo shows us in the country's streets and barrios, his arguments are as perceptive as his high-octane reportage.""--Publishers Weekly"
""El Narco" is riveting, authoritative reporting from the front lines of the Mexican drug wars. What's happening there has explosive potential consequences for every American, and Ioan Grillo's book shows you why."--Dan Rather, Founder and Anchor, HDNet's "Dan Rather Reports." "" "It is hard enough to report the facts of Mexico's crazy death spiral of drug violence. Ioan Grillo goes much, much deeper. He explains why El Narco threatens the soul of this beautiful country. He tells us how we got here.""--"William Booth, bureau chief for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, "Washington Post" "Not since Elaine Shannon's "Desperados" has a book shown us the lawless horrors of the drug war with the kind of gripping human detail that confronts us in "El Narco." Ioan Grillo explores that world as deeply as few journalists have dared, but he also examines it artfully and broadly: he puts the tragedy in a rich historical context that indicts not only Mexican and Latin American politicos b
"Effectively [analyzes how] Mexico came to control drug trafficking, how it spreads, and what can be done about it...This excellent work packs the punch of Roberto Saviano's "Gomorrah," an exploration of the Italian Mafia, which also displays the fruits of direct reporting bolstered by intensive interviewing."-"Booklist" (starred review) ""El Narco" is riveting, authoritative reporting from the front lines of the Mexican drug wars. What's happening there has explosive potential consequences for every American, and Ioan Grillo's book shows you why."--Dan Rather, Founder and Anchor, HDNet's "Dan Rather Reports." "" "It is hard enough to report the facts of Mexico's crazy death spiral of drug violence. Ioan Grillo goes much, much deeper. He explains why El Narco threatens the soul of this beautiful country. He tells us how we got here.""--"William Booth, bureau chief for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, "Washington Post" "Not since Elaine Shannon's "Desperados" has a book shown
"Grillo's book is terrific--full of vivid front-line reporting; diverse interviews; a sense of history; a touch of social science; clarifying statistics; and realistic reviews of what might be done to improve things, none of it easy. It is essential reading.""--"Steve Coll, NewYorker.com "Grillo takes advantage of his sources to provide insight on the drug war from nearly every angle, from the American government's longstanding attempts to stifle trafficking there to the national history that underpins much of the current narco culture... The book is a useful corrective to the common American idea that Mexico is just one big homogenous bloodbath south of Texas. ... filled with the sort of unforgettable details to which only a reporter who has been on this beat for years would be privy.""--Boston Globe " "Graphic and fast-paced history""--Mother Jones """ ""El Narco" achieves something unattempted in the English-language reporting on the Mexican drug war: it lays out in clear terms the contours of a world that has existed for years and only grown more barbaric as it's graduated to "war" status. Since that world is right next door, it's high time that English-language readers are able to learn just what makes it tick.""--Bookforum" "The strength of "El Narco" lies in its shoe-leather reporting; Grillo interviews everyone from a former cartel assassin to DEA agents to grieving families, snitches, pot and poppy farmers, illegal immigrants and gangbangers. He's the sort of journalist who'll pop into a plastic surgery clinic or taqueria if it turns up on a list of cartel-linked businesses, just to see what he can see. Writers this knowledgeable about the subject and with no particular ax to grind are rare.""--"Salon "Ioan Grillo delivers the first authoritative and comprehensive examination of the unprecedented mafia violence that has taken so many lives, shaken the Mexican state and spooked the Americans...this is the book to read to understand the homicidal madness just

Notă biografică

Ioan Grillo has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines, and TV stations in the U.S. and the UK. He reports for "Time "as well as producing presentations for PBS, ABC, and Channel 4 (UK). He regularly appears on radio and TV, commenting on Mexican crime and other issues. He has witnessed police and military operations, mafia killings and major drug seizures; he has discussed the drug war with two Mexican presidents, three attorneys general, and the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, among others.

Descriere scurtă

"Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com

A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.

The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it part of a worldwide shadow economy that threatens Mexico's democracy? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance, and lots of money at the problem. But in secret, Washington is at a loss. Who are these mysterious figures who threaten Mexico's democracy? What is El Narco?

El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands, from bullet-riddled barrios to marijuana-covered mountains. The conflict spawned by El Narco has given rise to paramilitary death squads battling from Guatemala to the Texas border (and sometimes beyond).

In this "propulsive ... high-octane" book (Publishers Weekly), Ioan Grillo draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's cartels and how they have radically transformed.