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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 neighbours. Offering a firsthand look from members of law enforcement, politicians, journalists, and people involved in the drug trade in Mexico and Canada, Gangland sheds a harsh light on the multibillion dollar industry that is the drug trade, the territorial wars, and the on-the-street reality for the United States, with the importation of narco-terrorists. With the unstinting realism and keen analysis that have made him an internationally respected journalist, Langton offers the bleak prospects of what a collapsed government in Mexico might lead to-a new Mexican warlord state not unlike Somalia. Details the emergence of the Mexican drug cartels-the transformation of middlemen who ferried drugs from Bolivia and Colombia to the U.S. and Canada into self-styled entrepreneurs Describes how the growth of the cartels led to violent territorial wars-with Felipe Calderon declaring war on the cartels in 2006 Offers a frightening look at how much the incursion of the drug cartels has affected American life and business-Wachovia and Bank of America have been found guilty of laundering cartel profits An unflinching examination of the world's most lucrative-and deadliest-drug cartel, Gangland lets readers explore, with brutal clarity, the newest front on America's latest war.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix 1 Deadly Playground 1 2 The Eagle Eats the Snake 17 3 A Mexican-born Emperor 33 4 The Rise of the Drug Cartels 51 5 Enemies of the State 73 6 Trouble in Paradise 85 7 Calderon Versus the Cartels 103 8 Battling the Beltran Leyva Cartel 113 9 Carnage in 2009 131 10 The Roll Call of Death 145 11 The War Expands 159 12 Exporting Drugs and Crime 169 13 The Violence Escalates 181 14 "A Phase of Very Intense Violence ..." 209 15 Mexican Cartel Violence Moves North 235 Notes 255 Sources 259 Index 261
