LEADER 00000nam 22005295i 4500 003 NjBwBT 005 20180628161942.0 006 m o d u 007 cr un ---uuuuu 008 180424s2016 xx o 000 0 eng d 020 9781620403808 :|c$42.00 020 1620403803 :|c$42.00 035 (OCoLC)935530615 037 0017881283|bBaker & Taylor 040 NjBwBT|beng|erda|cNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 069 01417062 099 eBook Boundless 100 1 Grillo, Ioan. 245 10 Gangster warlords :|bdrug dollars, killing fields, and the new politics of Latin America /|cIoan Grillo.|h[Boundless electronic resource] 264 1 |bBloomsbury USA,|c2016. 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rda 520 "In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments, and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns, and humans. What they do affects you now- -from the gas in your car, to the gold in your jewelry, to the tens of thousands of Latin Americans calling for refugee status in the U.S. Gangster Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean, regions largely abandoned by the U.S. after the Cold War. Author of the critically acclaimed El Narco, Ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001 and gained access to every level of the cartel chain of command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. Moving between militia- controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers, Grillo provides a disturbing new understanding of a war that has spiraled out of control--one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now"--|cProvided by publisher. 538 Requires Boundless App. 650 0 Gangsters|zLatin America. 650 0 Drug dealers|zLatin America. 650 0 Drug traffic|zMexico. 650 0 Drug control|zLatin America. 650 7 Drug control.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01032891 650 7 Drug dealers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01432137 650 7 Drug traffic.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00898722 650 7 Gangsters.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00937713 651 7 Latin America.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01245945 651 7 Mexico.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01211700 655 4 Electronic books. 710 2 Boundless (Digital media service) |0_aBoundless_(Digital_media_service) 856 40 |uhttps://naper.boundless.baker-taylor.com/ng/view/library /title/0017881283|zFound on Boundless