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Narco Noir

Carmen Amato
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Author : Carmen Amato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999712268

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A bitter past drives Acapulco's first female police detective into a Hollywood film starring lies and murder when she goes undercover to catch a killer. As the camera rolls, Detective Emilia Cruz will face her toughest case yet. "A thrilling series" -- National Public Radio After witnessing the execution-style murder of a taxi driver, Emilia replaces him behind the wheel. Undercover with a false identity, her target is a shadowy gang extorting protection money from the upscale taxi service. The homicide investigation is soon stuck in neutral. No one in Acapulco has heard of the gang. Yet the threat of another murder has all the drivers, including Emilia, scared to death. When Emilia's worst enemy gets into her taxi, both her life and the murder case accelerate out of control. Next stop, a movie set. The script is a nightmare. The director's cut is a double-cross.The leading man has looks that could kill. Grab your copy today!Poison Cup award, Outstanding Series -- CrimeMasters of America. Author Carmen Amato is a former CIA intelligence officer who uses her own counterdrug and espionage experiences to craft intrigue-filled crime fiction that keeps you guessing until the very end. Amato is a recipient of both the National Intelligence Award and the Career Intelligence Medal. If you love international police procedural series by Ian Rankin, Jo Nesbo, Ann Cleeves, Peter May, Louise Penny, and Jussi Adler-Olsen, you'll want to read the Detective Emilia Cruz series. It's a must-read for fans of Don Winslow's cartel and border thrillers set in Mexico. PRAISE FOR THE DETECTIVE EMILIA CRUZ SERIES CLIFF DIVER"Consistently exciting." ― Kirkus Reviews HAT DANCE"Emilia . . . is a force to be reckoned with." ― MysterySequels.com DIABLO NIGHTS"Amato's unique setting, realistic characters, and intriguing plot set her apart." ― OnlineBookClub.org KING PESO"Danger and betrayal never more than a few pages away."― Kirkus Reviews BOOKS BY CARMEN AMATO The Detective Emilia Cruz series CLIFF DIVERHAT DANCEDIABLO NIGHTSKING PESOPACIFIC REAPER43 MISSINGRUSSIAN MOJITONARCO NOIRMADE IN ACAPULCO Suspense THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITYAWAKENING MACBETH

Narco Noir

Carmen Amato
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Author : Carmen Amato
Publisher : Detective Emilia Cruz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798988536383

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Book 8 in the series: A bitter past drives Acapulco's first female police detective into a Hollywood film starring lies and murder when she goes undercover to catch a killer. As the camera rolls, Detective Emilia Cruz will face her toughest case yet.After witnessing the execution-style murder of a taxi driver, Emilia replaces him behind the wheel. Undercover with a false identity, her target is a shadowy gang extorting protection money from the upscale taxi service.Oddly enough, no one in Acapulco has heard of the gang. The homicide investigation is soon stuck in neutral. Yet the threat of another murder has all the drivers, including Emilia, scared to death.But when Emilia's worst enemy gets into her taxi, both her life and the murder case accelerate out of control. Next stop, a movie set where a second undercover role awaits.The script is a nightmare. The director's cut is a double-cross. The leading man has looks that could kill. Can Emilia act her way out of murder?

Narco Noir

Vanda Felbab-Brown
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Author : Vanda Felbab-Brown
Publisher : Geopolitics in the 21st Centur
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2025-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815728182

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Crime and security expert Vanda Felbab-Brown conducted more than eight years of fieldwork across Mexico analyzing policy interventions in key crime and violence hotspots, as well as in control cases. The result is Narco Noir: Mexico's Cartels, Cops, and Corruption, an extensive and unique set of organized crime case studies that include principal cases like, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Monterrey, Michoacan, and Chiapas - as well as in Mexico City. Narco Noir provides detailed assessments of the various law enforcement strategies, socio-economic anti-crime policies, and civil society mobilization efforts in key violent hotspots. The cases cover a wide variety of crime patterns and dynamics as well as policy responses. Felbab-Brown also includes an extensive section of policy recommendations, providing a detailed analysis of how to improve law enforcement capacity and strategies, change interdiction patterns to achieve greater deterrence capacity, and restructure socio-economic anti-crime policies.

The Rise of the Narcostate

John P. Sullivan
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Author : John P. Sullivan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781984543936

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This book is our sixth Small Wars Journal—El Centro anthology, covering writings published between 2016 and 2017. The theme of this anthology pertains to the rise of the narcostate (mafia states) as a result of the collusion between criminal organizations and political elites—essentially authoritarian regime members, corrupted plutocrats, and other powerful societal elements. The cover image of the mass demonstration concerning the disappearance of the forty-three Ayotzinapa Teachers’ College students held at Mexico City’s Zócalo Plaza in November 2014 provides an archetype of this anthology’s theme. This anthology includes the following special essays—Preface: “New Wars” and State Transformation by Robert Muggah, Igarapé Institute; Foreword: Crime and State-Making by Vanda Felbab-Brown, The Brookings Institution; Postscript: Crime, Drugs, Terror, and Money: Time for Hybrids by Alain Bauer, CNAM Paris; and Afterword: The Rise of the Oligarchs by Col. Robert Killebrew, US Army (Ret.). Dave Dilegge (SWJ, Editor-in-Chief)

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

Oswaldo Zavala
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Author : Oswaldo Zavala
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826504685

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Drug Cartels Do Not Exist by Oswaldo Zavala Pdf

Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's incendiary comments and monstrous policies on the border revealed the character of a deeply depraved leader, state violence on both sides of the border is nothing new. Immigration has endured as a prevailing news topic, but it is a fixture of modern society in the neoliberal era; the future will be one of exile brought on by state violence and the plundering of our natural resources to sate capitalist greed. Yet the realities of violence in Mexico and along the border are obscured by the books, films, and TV series we consume. In truth, works like Sicario, The Queen of the South, and Narcos hide Mexico's political realities. Alongside these examples, Zavala discusses Charles Bowden, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and other important Latin American writers as examples of those who do capture the realities of the drug war. Translated into English by William Savinar, Drug Cartels Do Not Exist will be useful for journalists, political scientists, philosophers, and writers of any kind who wish to break down the constructed barriers—physical and mental—created by those in power around the reality of the Mexican drug trade.

Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century

Frederick Luis Aldama
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Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816545018

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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

"Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary TV by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation all while recognizing that television still has a long way to go"--

Militants, Criminals, and Warlords

Vanda Felbab-Brown,Harold Trinkunas,Shadi Hamid
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Author : Vanda Felbab-Brown,Harold Trinkunas,Shadi Hamid
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815731900

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Militants, Criminals, and Warlords by Vanda Felbab-Brown,Harold Trinkunas,Shadi Hamid Pdf

" Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia are examples of nonstate actors that control local territory and render public services that the nation-state cannot or will not provide. This fascinating book takes the reader around the world to areas where national governance has broken down—or never really existed. In these places, the vacuum has been filled by local gangs, militias, and warlords, some with ideological or political agendas and others focused primarily on economic gain. Many of these actors have substantial popularity and support among local populations and have developed their own enduring institutions, often undermining the legitimacy of the national state. The authors show that the rest of the world has more than a passing interest in these situations, in part because transborder crime and terrorism often emerge but also because failed states threaten international interests from trade to security. This book also poses, and offers answers for, the question: How should the international community respond to local orders dominated by armed nonstate actors? In many cases outsiders have taken the short-term route—accepting unsavory local actors out of expediency—but at the price of long-term instability or damage to human rights and other considerations. From Africa and the Middle East to Asia and Latin America, the local situations highlighted in this book are, and will remain, high on today's international agenda. The book makes a unique contribution to global understanding of how those situations developed and what can be done about them. This title is part of the Geopolitics in the 21st Century series. "

Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora

John Ochoa,Monika Kaup
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Author : John Ochoa,Monika Kaup
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793636676

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Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora by John Ochoa,Monika Kaup Pdf

Honoring the lifework of the comparative literature scholar, From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora traces artistic and cultural pathways that connect Latin American literature and culture to the Americas, and to the world beyond. The essays in this collection cover three critical fields: comparative hemispheric American literature, magical realism, and the Baroque/New World Baroque/Neobaroque. Beginning with a critical reassessment of hemispheric American studies, these essays analyze the works of a wide array of writers, such as Roberto Bolaño, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Waldo Frank, and José Lez. These chapters build upon the legacy of the scholarship done by Dr. Zamora and exemplify the pattern of literary studies that she has driven forward.

The Rise of Transtexts

Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz,Mélanie Bourdaa
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Author : Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz,Mélanie Bourdaa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317371052

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The Rise of Transtexts by Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz,Mélanie Bourdaa Pdf

This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe. On the one hand exists industrial transmedia texts, produced by supposedly authoritative authors or entities and directed to active audiences in the aim of fostering engagement. On the other hand are fan-produced transmedia texts, primarily intended for fellow members of the fan communities, with the Internet allowing for connections and collaboration between fans. Through both case studies and more general analyses of audience participation and reception, employing the artistic, marketing, textual, industrial, cultural, social, geographical, technological, historical, financial and legal perspectives, this multidisciplinary collection aims to expand our understanding of both transmedia storytelling and fan-produced transmedia texts.

The Extinction Market

Vanda Felbab-Brown
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Author : Vanda Felbab-Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190855116

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The Extinction Market by Vanda Felbab-Brown Pdf

The planet is currently experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching and wildlife trafficking driven by expanding demand, for medicines, for food, and for trophies. Affecting many more species than just the iconic elephants, rhinos, and tigers, the rate of extinction is now as much as 1000 times the historical average and the worst since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. In addition to causing irretrievable biodiversity loss, wildlife trafficking also poses serious threats to public health, potentially triggering a global pandemic. The Extinction Market explores the causes, means, and consequences of poaching and wildlife trafficking, with a view to finding ways of suppressing them. Vanda Felbab-Brown travelled to the markets of Latin America, South and South East Asia, and eastern and southern Africa, to evaluate the effectiveness of various tools, including bans on legal trade, law enforcement, and interdiction; allowing legal supply from hunting or farming; alternative livelihoods; anti- money-laundering efforts; and demand reduction strategies. This is an urgent book offering meaningful solutions to one of the world's most pressing crises.

International Studies

Scott Straus,Barry Driscoll
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Author : Scott Straus,Barry Driscoll
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781071814376

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International Studies by Scott Straus,Barry Driscoll Pdf

The challenge of teaching international studies is to help students think coherently about the multiple causes and effects of global problems. In International Studies: Global Forces, Interactions, and Tensions, award-winning scholars Scott Straus and Barry Driscoll introduce students to the foundations of the course; the major actors, institutions and theories; as well as the contemporary problems that will matter most to students. In the fully updated Second Edition, the authors give students a clear framework that pinpoints how key factors—forces, interactions, and tensions—contribute to current world events and global problems like human rights abuses, economic inequality, pandemic and global health responses, and food security. The book raises the bar for the Introduction to International Studies course and is relevant to students from a wide variety of backgrounds with diverse interests in geography, sociology, political science, and anthropology. Included with this text The online resources for your text are available via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.

Organized Crime and Illicit Trade

Virginia Comolli
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Author : Virginia Comolli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319729688

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Organized Crime and Illicit Trade by Virginia Comolli Pdf

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state. Whereas most commentators would agree that criminal activities are harmful, this volume addresses the questions of ‘how?’, ‘for whom?’ and, controversially, ‘are they always harmful?’ The volume is authored by experts with multi-year experience analysing criminal and other non-state activities. They do so through different lenses - conflict and security, development, and technology - engaging academics, practitioners and policy makers. They offer a comprehensive integrated response to the challenges of transnational organised crime beyond traditional law-enforcement driven recommendations.

The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism

Erica Chenoweth,Richard English,Andreas Gofas,Stathis N. Kalyvas
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Author : Erica Chenoweth,Richard English,Andreas Gofas,Stathis N. Kalyvas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191047145

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The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism by Erica Chenoweth,Richard English,Andreas Gofas,Stathis N. Kalyvas Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of terrorism studies. The volume locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the widespread tendency towards treating terrorism as an exceptional act. Moreover, the volume makes a case for studying terrorism within its socio-historical context. Finally, the volume addresses the critique that the study of terrorism suffers from lack of theory by reviewing and extending the theoretical insights contributed by several fields - including political science, political economy, history, sociology, anthropology, criminology, law, geography, and psychology. In doing so, the volume showcases the analytical advancements and reflects on the challenges that remain since the emergence of the field in the early 1970s.

South Asia and the Great Powers

Sten Rynning
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Author : Sten Rynning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786731340

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South Asia and the Great Powers by Sten Rynning Pdf

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics. This book asks whether the region's great powers can overcome opposing interests and commit to political restraint. The concept of regional security is based on great power support for regional order. However, there are many pitfalls to consider: notably, the politics of contested nationalisms; the Asia-Pacific rivalry of China and the US; and India's inclinations to function - or be seen - as a benevolent hegemon for the region. Yet there are signs of renewed determination to move the region in new directions. While China's Silk Road projects are long-term regional investments that hinge on regional stability, the US is attempting to fashion new partnerships and India strives to reconcile regional differences to promote a peaceful environment.This book, as it sets out the emerging agendas of the great powers and local powers, makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of the international relations and diplomatic politics of South Asia.

Desert America

Rubén Martínez
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Author : Rubén Martínez
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780805095616

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Desert America by Rubén Martínez Pdf

A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West—a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migration The economic boom—and the devastation left in its wake—has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes. Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in Desert America, a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Rubén Martínez, acclaimed author of Crossing Over, evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin. In northern New Mexico, an epidemic of drug addiction flourishes in the shadow of some of the country's richest zip codes; in Joshua Tree, California, gentrification displaces people and history. In Marfa, Texas, an exclusive enclave triggers a race war near the banks of the Rio Grande. And on the Tohono O'odham reservation, Native Americans hunt down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate stretch of the border. With each desert story, Martínez explores his own encounter with the West and his love for this most contested region. In the process, he reveals that the great frontier is now a harbinger of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea of America.