Beruflich Dokumente
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Overview of Book
This book is a comprehensive overview of the total impact of drugs in Mexico and
describes the serious and intense threat that it represents to the Mexican State
and its ongoing lurch toward democratic and political reform— especially in terms
of how crime and violence affects Human Rights. The cover of this book includes
a Spanish "abstract and summary" of the themes and content, and this is an
accurate and relevant summary of the contents. My translation of the publisher
abstract follows:
"The rules that have been operating in Mexico with respect to narcotraffic have
radically changed. Clandestine wars of the past have become public battles. In
this bloody battle for power and territory (plaza), the protagonists described in
this book are relying on never before seen strategies that foster fear and social
terror in their methods of settling accounts (ajusticimientos). Narcotics
challenges presidential power and the army equally. The result: violence without
limits that threatens, as never before, the stability of the country.
Narcotráfico: El gran desafío de Calderón is a journalistic work that pulls together
the pieces of puzzling events that have previously been presented in detached
pieces of information in the media. Beginning with the political transition of 2000
and covering the appointment of the current cabinet, and paying specific
attention to the most recent executions in Guerrero and emerging political
scandals, Gutiérrez unveils many historical plots and a related bloody and
frightening history that allows the reader to appreciate the overall reality that is
undermining the foundations of society— and which has begun to shift the terms
for control of the state."