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The Cartel: A white-knuckle drug war thriller

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Bernardo Jaramillo Osa, el líder de la UP, fue abatido a tiros cuando bajaba de un avión en Bogotá la primavera siguiente. La crítica que hace Winslow en el libro sobre la política de drogas estadounidense parece centrarse más en lo que es la represión y la interdicción. There’s only about a billion and a half reviews out there that are far superior to anything I could possibly barf out, so I’m going to keep this simple. Los países occidentales, y sobre todo EEUU, prefieren invertir, de cara a la opinión pública, en ingentes programas antidroga en Colombia o México, pero no encaran de ninguna manera el problema real que está en su propia casa: el consumo. I think about dancing in the streets during Carnival in Brazil and looking down on the rest of civilization at Machu Picchu in Peru.

Winslow also does a great job of using the story to create a broader theme about the ultimate futility and hypocrisy of the drug war. Hundreds of pages later, he’ll circle back to this scene, and the meaning he develops by finally placing it within the framework of the story is ingenious.

He shows you the interaction between Mexican organized crime, and American organized crime (here focusing on the Mafia, rather than street gangs), along with the complicity of the Mexican government and the meddling, regime-destabilizing antics of the U. There are some difficult scenes to get through in this book, so if you’re a little queasy or are unable to stomach graphic violence (one scene involving children in particular), I would probably steer clear.

Comienza en 1975, con una mirada cercana a la afamada Operación Cóndor, y termina en 2004, justo en el momento en el que la guerra contra las drogas se ha moldeado en un nuevo aspecto posterior al 11 de septiembre.

Por mucho que se invadan países, se quemen cosechas, se ponga en el poder a dictadores, mientras haya demanda en nuestro primer mundo el negocio seguirá existiendo y la droga llegará a los consumidores, caiga quien caiga, muera quien muera y haya que corromper a quien sea necesario.

It starts back in the ‘70s with Mary Jane, takes us through Nancy Reagan “winning” the war on drugs and continues to morph and reinvent itself all the way through the late ‘90s via Mexico, Colombia, California, the East Coast – you name it. Capos, escuadrones de la CIA, asesinos oficiales y no oficiales, prostitutas de diferentes niveles, militares con y sin uniforme y los que se interponen en sus caminos. Art gets assigned to Mexico where he meets the Barrera family who feeds him the intel to destroy most of the existing heroin trade and poppy fields. Como van saliendo personajes y piensas: "qué tiene que ver este tipo con México", "y esta tía, qué pinta aquí?As I read it, pop culture artifacts as different as Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, and the techno-thrillers of Tom Clancy popped into my head.

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