Mexico · Nonfiction
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency
Ioan Grillo follows the people and networks behind Mexico’s drug trade, tracing how trafficking organisations became forces capable of challenging the state. His reporting moves between border towns, mountain communities and the international market that sustains the violence.
Published in 2011, this is a reported account of a particular stage in the conflict rather than a current security guide. It gives a reader a way into the pressures beneath the headlines: money, policing, corruption and the lives caught between them.
“Puts a human face on the bloodshed.”
The Boston Globe, quoted by Bloomsbury
Crime; Politics; Journalism; Drug trade