Gangland The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from el Paso to Vancouver

Name: Gangland The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from el Paso to Vancouver
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ISBN: 9781118008058

ISBN-10: 1118008057

ISBN-13: 9781118008058

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jerry Langton

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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. Not only have their drugs crossed north of the border, so have the cartels (in 2009, 230 active Mexican drug cartels have been reported in U.S. cities). In Gangland, bestselling author Jerry Langton details their frightening stranglehold on the economy and daily life of Mexico today-and what it portends for the future of Mexico and its neighbors. Offering a…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Deadly Playground



The Eagle Eats the Snake



A Mexican-born Emperor



The Rise of the Drug Cartels



Enemies of the State



Trouble in Paradise



Calderï¿½n Versus the Cartels



Battling the Beltrï¿½n Leyva Cartel



Carnage in 2009



The Roll Call of Death



The War Expands



Exporting Drugs and Crime



The Violence Escalates



"A Phase of Very Intense Violence..."



Mexican Cartel Violence Moves North


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Index