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Cargando... El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgencypor Ioan Grillo
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) sgwordy | Dec 31, 2022 |  "El Narco" is the Ioan Grillo's attempt to explain the ins-and-outs of Mexico's drug war. It is a very ambitious book that covers a lot of ground. It does not have a particular main idea that it follows. The book reads like a collection of closely-related essays. Some of those essays have great details, such as an interview with an undercover DEA agent. However, Grillo spends a lot of effort describing the violent aspects of the war: beheadings, bloody gunfights, assassinations, and other gruesome aspects of the war. These seem to take precedence over Grillo's solutions and feelings about the drug war. As such, different chapters tend to go on and on. Grillo frequently uses a frustrating tactic when writing. He writes pages and pages detailing phenomena, making conclusive statements and theses. Then, he writes "or is it?" and squeezes out the opposite thesis over more and more pages. Perhaps this tactic is an attempt to provide a more nuanced approach to the issues, but it ends up contradicted long passages and rambling. A petty complaint from me is Grillo's use of slang. At different times in the book, he refers to cocaine as "the white lady," "yayo," "disco powder," and "blow." While the book rambles quite a bit, it is the biggest attempt that I have read of an author trying to explain the origins and diagnosis of the crisis. (  ) mvblair | Aug 9, 2020 | Still, stunning insight into something that we should all know about, and the last chapters about the Narco cartels' spread across the world is .... fundamental. ( ) GirlMeetsTractor | Mar 22, 2020 |  ) VGAHarris | Jan 19, 2015 | This book is based on the crimes that have been happening in Mexico. According to the author these are fact and true. To me there is so much information in this book it is hard for someone that does not watch a lot of world news (I works a split 1st/2nd -12 hr shift) to understand how all of this is happening. No I have not taken the time to look up the information on the internet. I am taking the author at there word. But with that being said, someone needs to do something about all the needless death, pain and suffering without bringing the people to another country. Sorry in my opinion and this is only my opinion, if the government was at all concerned about the welfare of there people they would find a way to put a stop to the crime, gang and drugs that are escaping the country to the citizens feel safe and are interested in staying there. ( ) kybunnies | Oct 19, 2014 |
 There's no question that Mexican society has been traumatized by the violence of the past five years; but through it all, some have found a way to cope. Grillo says that in Ciudad Juarez — a town he describes as "the most murderous city on the planet" — people have started going to the opera. "People are saying, 'Well this opera is an amazing chance for us to forget about this drug violence,' " Grillo says. " 'While you hear the music, it won't make anything better or improve your life; but at least for those minutes of hearing the music you can find an escape and imagine things getting better.' " Premios
"Por fin en nuestro país, uno de las novedades de investigación más impactantes del año, que ha generado enorme expectación antes de su publicación. El periodista británico Ioan Grillo, que durante una década ha informado de la guerrilla de las drogas mexicana desde primera línea del frente, nos conduce al corazón mismo del narcotráfico para ofrecernos un retrato tan brutal como insoslayable de la insurgencia que amenaza el país. Asesinos a sueldo, extorsión, asesinatos en masa y terror generalizado tienen en México un mismo nombre: el narco, una vasta organización criminal cuya siniestra sombra se proyecta sobre todo el país. Desde los asesinos a sueldo de Ciudad Juárez hasta las cárceles de máxima seguridad, desde las plantaciones de Guatemala hasta los cárteles de barrio, El narco nos acerca las escalofriantes voces de los protagonistas de un conflicto que nace en México para extender sus tentáculos al resto del mundo."--Casa del libro. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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