El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency Ioan Grillo
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Guest writer John Sullivan, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department lieutenant writing his dissertation on criminal insurgency, leads off with a discussion of Mexico's hyper-violent drug cartels: by John Sullivan / Baker Institute Blog heroes for the disenfranchised. Cartel: Mexico's Criminal Insurgency. Narco-folk saints like Santa Muerte and Jesus Malverde are venerated to bond narcos into a cohesive social structure that provides justification for their actions and spiritual protection for their deeds. The new reality of narco violence in Central Mexico is a result of the logistical dispute between Los Zetas, El Chapo and La Familia Michoacana, with some participation by the Beltran Leyva Organization, insist the sources that were consulted. Yet the narco-war in 2010 is not identical to by three main trends: continuing (though increasingly diffused) violence against the state, increasing militarization of the Mexican state's response, and a growing feeling of defeat among some within Mexican policy circles. Territory, especially as the cartels, already allied with U.S. Download the full article: Cartel v. The economic miracle coexists with what some analysts have called a "criminal insurgency" of powerful criminal networks motivated by profit rather than ideology—and unafraid to directly challenge the government. Ioan Grillo's El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency is all of those things: timely, educational, thoughtful, and well crafted. This possibility adds to concerns that the horrendous violence that has characterized Mexico's drug wars will spread into U.S. The difficult-to-traverse mountains provided a perfect place to start a drug trade that continues to this day. For years, cartels were more inclined to make deals in Mexico with American traffickers, who would then handle transportation to and distribution within major cities, said Art Bilek, a former organized crime investigator who is .. As the decade ends, Mexico's criminal insurgency continues.