![]() This has several consequences for Mexican politics: when the level of violence is extreme and when political killings are involved that are systematic and pervasive, this could indicate a real fracture in the democratic system. The majority of these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of it had occurred. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known, but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election violence. Prefaced by the award-winning journalist and translator who met with him face to face, this is a deeply chilling and important book, revealing the brutality of the drugs underworld as you've never seen it before.Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. El Sicario also offers the unvarnished truth about the Mexican narco war that saw 2,750 murders in Juarez in 2009 alone, and over 3,000 again last year. Along the way he explains why he first became involved with the cartels and how they operate outlines the most effective way to torture your victim and describes the corrosive experience of looking into someone's eyes as you strangle them to death. In sober, grim and graphic detail, he offers a series of confessions. He now lives as a fugitive in the US, with a $250,000 price tag on his head. He has executed hundreds, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. This is the killing ground of the unnamed assassin, El Sicario. And killing.' Welcome to Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, the most dangerous city on Earth. 'I'm going to tell you about 20 years of my life dedicated to serving the cartel. Framed by two pieces by award-winning journalist Charles Bowden that set the scene for the reader, this deeply chilling and important book shows us the Mexican drugs war as we've never seen it before. Through El Sicario's words we see, for the very first time, the life of a cartel hitman in sober yet graphic detail the distribution of power in this mindblowingly corrupt country and the contrition of a man who became so disturbed by his day job that he would wake from nightmares throttling his own wife. ![]() This is the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs - the murders, the corruption, the warring cartels, the complicity of the American and Mexican governments, by a man who has seen it and shared in the violence. ![]() ![]() There is a contract on his life of $250,000, and he lives as a fugitive. 'If Juarez is a city of God, it's because the devil is scared to come here.' A Juárez hit man ( Sicario ) speaks: he has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police, receiving training from the FBI. ![]()
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