by Ioan Grillo
Central and South America: Alfredo Rangel, Oliver Schmieg, John Otis, Wenceslau Rodriguez, Juan Carlos Llorca, Lourdes Honduras, Mery Carcamo, Kenya Torres, Noe Leiva, Karla Ramos, Gustavo Duncan, Otilia Lux.
The United States: Michael Marizco, Mike “Mad Dog” Kirsch, Elijah Wald, Chris Shively, Darlene Stinston, Dane Schiller, Jim Pinkerton, Tracey Eaton, Tim Padgett, Howard Chua, Tony Karon, Stephanie Garlow, Mark Scheffler, Tomás Mucha, Charles Sennot, Jorge Mujica, George Grayson, Rob Winder.
A big special thanks to agent Katherine Fausset and publisher Pete Beatty for believing in this book and making it happen. I wouldn’t have got anywhere without them. Or without my parents. Or my wife, Myri, who has put up with my covering drug traffickers for the last decade. Thank you.
A Note on the Author
Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media, including Time magazine, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the Sunday Telegraph. He has covered military operations, mafia killings, and cocaine seizures, and has discussed the drug war with two Mexican presidents, three attorneys general, and the U.S. ambassador. A native of England, he lives in Mexico City. El Narco is his first book.
Copyright © 2011 by Ioan Grillo
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Grillo, Ioan, 1973–
El Narco : inside Mexico’s criminal insurgency / Ioan Grillo. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Drug traffic—Mexico. 2. Drug dealers—Mexico. I. Title.
HV5840.M4G75 2011
363.450972—dc22
2011007186
First published in the United States by Bloomsbury Press in 2011
Electronic edition published in November 2011
E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-504-6 (ebook)
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