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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle.
On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their...
On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey's exacting work exposes the undeniable links between the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement and the consequences we live with today-a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality. When...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
ix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Operation Jackpot was the drug investigation that ended the 1980's reign of South Carolina's "gentlemen smugglers"; this book profiles some of the individuals involved in the "golden age" of marijuana trafficking.
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since President Calderón declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexicans have been murdered. Drug money is now Mexico's single largest source of income. Gibler travels across Mexico and slips behind the frontlines to talk with people who live in towns under assault on the lawless frontiers of the drug war.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the thirteen-year crusade of federal prosecutor Bonnie Klapper and Department of Homeland Security Agent Romedio Viola, who worked together to bring down the Colombian cartel responsible for sixty percent of the cocaine entering the United States.
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