"Tambiň de este lado hay sueǫs. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite...

Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in recent years, building submarines to move up the coast of Central America and digging elaborate tunnels that both move drugs north and carry cash and U.S....

The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping...

Until now, the worst of the "war on drugs" has been kept quiet or in the realm of rumors: the real degree of brutality, the logic of the deals made, the accounts of massacres, the explanation of the attacks. Through deep documentary research and rigorous reporting, Juan Alberto Cedillo offers an unprecedented investigation that sheds light on these phenomena and clarifies fundamental questions about the fight that is raging, particularly in northern...

El narco inunda el país... excepto la Ciudad de México. Por increíble que parezca, ése ha sido el discurso oficial de todos los gobernantes que ha tenido la capital del país. Ningún jefe de gobierno, nunca, ha aceptado que los cárteles campean en el corazón de México. Este libro los refuta y evidencia el problema. Caso a caso, documenta qué grupos se pelean las 16 alcaldías, cómo operan, qué está en juego y de qué tamaño es el monstruo...

"Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido perio̕dstico de Anabel Herǹndez en su incesante {250}bsqeuda por entender el complejo imperio del crimen organizado y los ̀crteles de la droga en ̌Mxico, los cuales desde hace ďcadas tienen sumida a la nac̤in en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los ̕das son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del sexo femenino"--Back cover.

"A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade that reveals how an industry founded by farmers and village healers became dominated by cartels and kingpins. The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real...