Narco Noir

2025-01-28 Political Science

Author : Vanda Felbab-Brown
Release : 2025-01-28
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Narco Noir written by Vanda Felbab-Brown. This book was released on 2025-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and security expert Vanda Felbab-Brown conducted more than eight years of fieldwork across Mexico analyzing policy interventions in key crime and violence hotspots, as well as in control cases. The result is Narco Noir: Mexico's Cartels, Cops, and Corruption, an extensive and unique set of organized crime case studies that include principal cases like, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Monterrey, Michoacan, and Chiapas - as well as in Mexico City. Narco Noir provides detailed assessments of the various law enforcement strategies, socio-economic anti-crime policies, and civil society mobilization efforts in key violent hotspots. The cases cover a wide variety of crime patterns and dynamics as well as policy responses. Felbab-Brown also includes an extensive section of policy recommendations, providing a detailed analysis of how to improve law enforcement capacity and strategies, change interdiction patterns to achieve greater deterrence capacity, and restructure socio-economic anti-crime policies.

Narco Noir

2023-08-15

Author : Carmen Amato
Release : 2023-08-15
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Download or read book Narco Noir written by Carmen Amato. This book was released on 2023-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 8 in the series: A bitter past drives Acapulco's first female police detective into a Hollywood film starring lies and murder when she goes undercover to catch a killer. As the camera rolls, Detective Emilia Cruz will face her toughest case yet.After witnessing the execution-style murder of a taxi driver, Emilia replaces him behind the wheel. Undercover with a false identity, her target is a shadowy gang extorting protection money from the upscale taxi service.Oddly enough, no one in Acapulco has heard of the gang. The homicide investigation is soon stuck in neutral. Yet the threat of another murder has all the drivers, including Emilia, scared to death.But when Emilia's worst enemy gets into her taxi, both her life and the murder case accelerate out of control. Next stop, a movie set where a second undercover role awaits.The script is a nightmare. The director's cut is a double-cross. The leading man has looks that could kill. Can Emilia act her way out of murder?

Narco Noir

2020-05-16

Author : Carmen Amato
Release : 2020-05-16
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Download or read book Narco Noir written by Carmen Amato. This book was released on 2020-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bitter past drives Acapulco's first female police detective into a Hollywood film starring lies and murder when she goes undercover to catch a killer. As the camera rolls, Detective Emilia Cruz will face her toughest case yet. "A thrilling series" -- National Public Radio After witnessing the execution-style murder of a taxi driver, Emilia replaces him behind the wheel. Undercover with a false identity, her target is a shadowy gang extorting protection money from the upscale taxi service. The homicide investigation is soon stuck in neutral. No one in Acapulco has heard of the gang. Yet the threat of another murder has all the drivers, including Emilia, scared to death. When Emilia's worst enemy gets into her taxi, both her life and the murder case accelerate out of control. Next stop, a movie set. The script is a nightmare. The director's cut is a double-cross.The leading man has looks that could kill. Grab your copy today!Poison Cup award, Outstanding Series -- CrimeMasters of America. Author Carmen Amato is a former CIA intelligence officer who uses her own counterdrug and espionage experiences to craft intrigue-filled crime fiction that keeps you guessing until the very end. Amato is a recipient of both the National Intelligence Award and the Career Intelligence Medal. If you love international police procedural series by Ian Rankin, Jo Nesbo, Ann Cleeves, Peter May, Louise Penny, and Jussi Adler-Olsen, you'll want to read the Detective Emilia Cruz series. It's a must-read for fans of Don Winslow's cartel and border thrillers set in Mexico. PRAISE FOR THE DETECTIVE EMILIA CRUZ SERIES CLIFF DIVER"Consistently exciting." ― Kirkus Reviews HAT DANCE"Emilia . . . is a force to be reckoned with." ― MysterySequels.com DIABLO NIGHTS"Amato's unique setting, realistic characters, and intriguing plot set her apart." ― OnlineBookClub.org KING PESO"Danger and betrayal never more than a few pages away."― Kirkus Reviews BOOKS BY CARMEN AMATO The Detective Emilia Cruz series CLIFF DIVERHAT DANCEDIABLO NIGHTSKING PESOPACIFIC REAPER43 MISSINGRUSSIAN MOJITONARCO NOIRMADE IN ACAPULCO Suspense THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITYAWAKENING MACBETH

The Rise of the Narcostate

2018-08-30 Political Science

Author : John P. Sullivan
Release : 2018-08-30
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 938/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Narcostate written by John P. Sullivan. This book was released on 2018-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is our sixth Small Wars Journal—El Centro anthology, covering writings published between 2016 and 2017. The theme of this anthology pertains to the rise of the narcostate (mafia states) as a result of the collusion between criminal organizations and political elites—essentially authoritarian regime members, corrupted plutocrats, and other powerful societal elements. The cover image of the mass demonstration concerning the disappearance of the forty-three Ayotzinapa Teachers’ College students held at Mexico City’s Zócalo Plaza in November 2014 provides an archetype of this anthology’s theme. This anthology includes the following special essays—Preface: “New Wars” and State Transformation by Robert Muggah, Igarapé Institute; Foreword: Crime and State-Making by Vanda Felbab-Brown, The Brookings Institution; Postscript: Crime, Drugs, Terror, and Money: Time for Hybrids by Alain Bauer, CNAM Paris; and Afterword: The Rise of the Oligarchs by Col. Robert Killebrew, US Army (Ret.). Dave Dilegge (SWJ, Editor-in-Chief)

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

2022-05-15 Social Science

Author : Oswaldo Zavala
Release : 2022-05-15
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Drug Cartels Do Not Exist written by Oswaldo Zavala. This book was released on 2022-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's incendiary comments and monstrous policies on the border revealed the character of a deeply depraved leader, state violence on both sides of the border is nothing new. Immigration has endured as a prevailing news topic, but it is a fixture of modern society in the neoliberal era; the future will be one of exile brought on by state violence and the plundering of our natural resources to sate capitalist greed. Yet the realities of violence in Mexico and along the border are obscured by the books, films, and TV series we consume. In truth, works like Sicario, The Queen of the South, and Narcos hide Mexico's political realities. Alongside these examples, Zavala discusses Charles Bowden, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and other important Latin American writers as examples of those who do capture the realities of the drug war. Translated into English by William Savinar, Drug Cartels Do Not Exist will be useful for journalists, political scientists, philosophers, and writers of any kind who wish to break down the constructed barriers—physical and mental—created by those in power around the reality of the Mexican drug trade.

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