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“All of Mexico is El Chapo country. His rise parallels that of Pablo Escobar.” —Newsweek
“Malcolm Beith’s book is a virtual nonstop chase.” —Albuquerque Journal
“The Last Narco is a brave and terrific headlong journalistic trek into the dangerous, and immensely relevant, terrain of drug trafficking in Mexico, and the life and times of its foremost practitioner.” —Sam Quinones, author of True Tales from Another Mexico
“The Last Narco gracefully captures the heroic struggle of those who dare to stand up to the cartels, and the ways those cartels have tragically corrupted every aspect of Mexican law enforcement.” —Laura Bickford, producer, Traffic
“Malcolm Beith slaps our faces with our ignorance. We barely know Mexico, and understand even less of its major industry, drugs. In The Last Narco, he gives us a look into a place our government either denies or lies about. This time you can run, but you can’t hide.” —Charles Bowden, author of Murder City
“No ‘war on terror’ was ever as terrifying as the ferocious wars of the drug lords in Mexico. In The Last Narco, Malcolm Beith courageously takes us to the front lines in the heart of the Mexican badlands—and also right on the border of the United States. This is a threat to homeland security that is too often ignored by the press and public, and this is the book that brings it all into focus. A must read.” —Christopher Dickey, author of Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—the NYPD
“Malcolm Beith risked life and limb to tell the inside story of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, Mexico’s notorious drug capo. A novelist could not have presented a more intriguing or compelling tale of corruption, intimidation, murder, blood feuds, life-and-death negotiations, and the entrepreneurial skill of a near-mythic figure whom Forbes Magazine named one of the world’s richest men. Beith’s superb book corroborates the cliché that fact is stranger than fiction.” —George W. Grayson, professor of government at the College of William & Mary and the author of Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?
“He is the last of the Mohicans. All of the other big cartels have been decapitated. That is why they want him so badly.” —Jorge Chabat, Mexico City Law Enforcement Expert
“A virtual nonstop chase.” —Trading Markets
About the Author
Malcolm Beith, a writer based in Mexico City, has covered the drug war for Newsweek and has contributed to Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, and Jane's Intelligence Weekly.
John Allen Nelson's critically acclaimed roles on television's 24 and Vanished are among the highlights of his twenty-five-plus years as an actor, screenwriter, and film producer. As a narrator, he won an AudioFile Earphones Award for his reading of Zoo Story by Thomas French.
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- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Grove Press (August 23, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0802145485
- ISBN-13: 978-0802145482
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
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Desiring to learn about the drug wars in Mexico, I bought this book somewhat as a blind shot in the dark. Like most blind shots in the dark, it missed the mark.
THE LAST NARCO refers to Joaquin Guzman Loera, a/k/a El Chapo. (Actually, the title seems to be somewhat misleading; while Chapo may be the last operating "El Jefe de jefes" ("Boss of bosses") still at large, if "narco" is given its common meaning of someone associated with the drug trade, clearly there are tens of thousands of narcos, with the number growing daily.) "Forbes" Magazine has listed Chapo both as one of the richest people in the world and one of the most powerful. Chapo is the book's centerpiece, around which Malcolm Beith, a British journalist, reports on the rampant drug trafficking, the narcos, the corruption, and the murder and mayhem over the last quarter century in Mexico.
By and large, the book is anecdotal. From time to time Beith wanders into the realms of analysis and policy, but never in sustained fashion or with particular enlightenment. What, one might wonder, has been the role of the United States? Beith mentions, more or less in passing, its role as the overriding market demand for the drugs coming out of and through Mexico (Ross Perot's sucking sound heading the opposite direction). From several of his anecdotes, one might speculate that U.S. intervention at both the levels of law enforcement and national diplomacy has affected - perhaps for good or perhaps for ill - Mexico's handling of its drug problem, but the matter is not really discussed. Beith also mentions, again without in-depth discussion, that the U.S. is the major supplier (perhaps as high as 90%) of the firearms used by Mexico's drug cartels and their sicarios (killers).
"The Last Narco" by Malcolm Beith is a brave piece of investigative journalism regarding the ongoing Mexican drug war that has cost 10s of thousands of lives in the last 6 years. In the last few weeks, Mexicans have spoken at the polls, bringing the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) back into power and with it, a de-escalation of the war waged by President Felipe Calderon's conservative PAN (National Action Party) against the cartels. The PRI ruled over Mexico for a long time; from 1929 to 2000 it governed the country with a policy of tolerance towards the cartels and it would seem that the Mexican people and their law enforcement agencies have tired of the endless conflict over the multi-billion dollar business.
The carnage and loss of life in Mexico is truly horrific, as the tactics of brutality (such as decapitation) have increased with the national infighting that began with a three pronged war; numerous regional cartels went to war with each other, while the AFI (Mexican FBI) and Army tried to sort the issue out (yet the agencies are notorious for leaks and corruption). Clearly, they have not been totally successful. The jails have swelled with narco-traffickers and their henchmen. It has not served as a deterrent, as the positions of newly killed or arrested narcos are filled by residents from each cartel's population who leave their meager wages and are willing to give their life for their "jefe" for a chance at riches and the fast life of the cartels.
Beith's work is very brave, stating in his postscript of the danger that is omnipresent for Mexican journalists who go sniffing into cartel business.
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