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The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters and drug agents at the problem. But in secret, Washington is confused and divided about what to do. Who are these mysterious figures tearing Mexico apart? they wonder. What is El Narco?

El Narco draws the first definitive portrait of Mexicos drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the last decade. El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-growing mountains. And it has created paramilitary death squads with tens of thousands of men-at-arms from Guatemala to the Texas border...

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Gods own medicine Opium poppies in the Sierra Madre Occidental Fernando - photo 1

Gods own medicine Opium poppies in the Sierra Madre Occidental Fernando - photo 2

Gods own medicine. Opium poppies in the Sierra Madre Occidental. (Fernando Brito)

Mixing up coca paste in a clandestine lab in Putumayo Colombia Oliver - photo 3

Mixing up coca paste in a clandestine lab in Putumayo, Colombia. (Oliver Schmieg)

The finished product A kilo brick of pure cocaine The markings indicate which - photo 4

The finished product. A kilo brick of pure cocaine. The markings indicate which cartel it belongs to. (Oliver Schmieg)

Economy of scale Soldiers tear up an industrial-size marijuana plantation in - photo 5

Economy of scale. Soldiers tear up an industrial-size marijuana plantation in Sinaloa. (Fernando Brito)

Drug-ballad crooners Grupo Cartel pose outside the Humaya cemetery in Culiacn - photo 6

Drug-ballad crooners Grupo Cartel pose outside the Humaya cemetery in Culiacn. The towering mausoleums are of deceased narcos. (Fernando Brito)

Holy Death The faithful pray dance and smoke outside a shrine to the Santa - photo 7

Holy Death. The faithful pray, dance, and smoke outside a shrine to the Santa Muerte in Tepito, Mexico City. (Keith Dannemiller)

Mexicos Eliot Ness President Felipe Caldern explains his drug-war strategy - photo 8

Mexicos Eliot Ness. President Felipe Caldern explains his drug-war strategy. (Keith Dannemiller)

A soldier at the scene of a cartel killing in Sinaloa Fernando Brito - photo 9

A soldier at the scene of a cartel killing in Sinaloa. (Fernando Brito)

Assassin Gustavo inside a cartel safe house in Medelln Colombia Oliver - photo 10

Assassin Gustavo inside a cartel safe house in Medelln, Colombia. (Oliver Schmieg)

One move and youre dead Colombian special forces bust a truckload of cocaine - photo 11

One move and youre dead. Colombian special forces bust a truckload of cocaine. (Oliver Schmieg)

Urban war Soldiers run to a crime scene in Culiacn Fernando Brito A - photo 12

Urban war. Soldiers run to a crime scene in Culiacn. (Fernando Brito)

A cartel murder victim in Sinaloa Fernando Brito Daily mourning Family - photo 13

A cartel murder victim in Sinaloa. (Fernando Brito)

Daily mourning Family members lay to rest a murdered police officer in - photo 14

Daily mourning. Family members lay to rest a murdered police officer in Sinaloa. (Fernando Brito)

Body messaging A corpse decorated by gangsters in Sinaloa Fernando Brito - photo 15

Body messaging. A corpse decorated by gangsters in Sinaloa. (Fernando Brito)

Terror A cartel victim dumped in a Sinaloan canal Fernando Brito Peace - photo 16

Terror. A cartel victim dumped in a Sinaloan canal. (Fernando Brito)

Peace in the future Schoolgirls in Culiacn march against violence They carry - photo 17

Peace in the future? Schoolgirls in Culiacn march against violence. They carry photos of innocent victims. (Fernando Brito)

Copyright 2011 by Ioan Grillo

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

For information address Bloomsbury Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

Published by Bloomsbury Press, New York

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Grillo, Ioan, 1973
El Narco : inside Mexicos criminal insurgency / Ioan Grillo. 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Drug trafficMexico. 2. Drug dealersMexico. I. Title.
HV5840.M4G75 2011
363.450972dc22
2011007186

First published in the United States by Bloomsbury Press in 2011
Electronic edition published in November 2011

E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-504-6 (ebook)

www.bloomsburypress.com

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CHAPTER 1 It all seemed like a bad dream It may have been vivid and raw But - photo 18

CHAPTER 1

It all seemed like a bad dream.

It may have been vivid and raw. But it felt somehow surreal, as if Gonzalo were watching these terrible acts from above. As if it were someone else who had firefights with ski-masked federal police in broad daylight. Someone else who stormed into homes and dragged away men from crying wives and mothers. Someone else who duct-taped victims to chairs and starved and beat them for days. Someone else who clasped a machete and began to hack off their craniums while they were still living.

But it was all real.

He was a different man when he did those things, Gonzalo tells me. He had smoked crack cocaine and drunk whiskey every day, had enjoyed power in a country where the poor are so powerless, had a latest-model truck and could pay for houses in cash, had four wives and children scattered all over had no God.

In those days, I had no fear. I felt nothing. I had no compassion for anybody, he says, speaking slowly, swallowing some words.

His voice is high and nasal after police smashed his teeth out until he confessed. His face betrays little emotion. I cant take in the gravity of what he is sayinguntil I play back a video of the interview later and transcribe his words. Then as I wallow over the things he told me, I pause and shudder inside.

I talk to Gonzalo in a prison cell he shares with eight others on a sunny Tuesday morning in Ciudad Jurez, the most murderous city on the planet. We are less than seven miles from the United States and the Rio Grande, which slices through North America like a line dividing a palm. Gonzalo sits on his bed in the corner clasping his hands together on his lap. He wears a simple white T-shirt that reveals a protruding belly under broad shoulders and bulging muscles that he built as a teenage American football star and are still in shape at his age thirty-eight. Standing six feet two, he cuts an imposing figure and exhibits an air of authority over his cellmates. But as he talks to me, he is modest and forthcoming. He wears a goatee, gray hairs on his chin below a curved, black mustache. His eyes are focused and intense, looking ruthless and intimidating but also revealing an inner pain.

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