{"product_id":"el-narco-inside-mexicos-criminal-insurgency","title":"El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential reading.\"-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEl 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). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this \"propulsive ... high-octane\" book (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), Ioan Grillo draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's cartels and how they have radically transformed.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48515889627385,"sku":"9781608194018","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_e14b6004-fea0-4db2-921a-9235feff4382.jpg?v=1781209497","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/el-narco-inside-mexicos-criminal-insurgency","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}