el sicario confessions of a cartel hit man pdf

Drawing on examples of traffickers and cells from the Arellano Felix Organization, the Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, the Viagras, Zetas, and the Gulf Cartels, this article traces the genealogy of violent tactics, techniques, and procedures such as dissolving bodies in acid, asphyxiation, and infantry tactics, through individual traffickers into new groups drawn generally in the direction of more powerful, proximate, and similar trafficking groups.

Bacterial conjugation is a useful amplifying variable for understanding the homogenization of violence and this article probes its plausibility by providing examples of traffickers switching groups and taking tactics with them. Individual drug traffickers consciously switch between Mexican organized crime groups sometimes three and four times, much like individual bacteria exchange their DNA in a horizontal genetic transfer that allows rapid evolution and resilience. 'Sobre este título' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.This article posits a competitive bacterial ecology as a framework for Mexican drug trafficking with a novel focus on bacterial conjugation (one type of horizontal gene transmission) to explain tactical homogenization. To read this book is to enter a world of terror and corruption and to understand the man who has seen it all and, for now, lived to tell the tale. The corrosive experience of looking into someone's eyes as you strangle them to death The most effective way to torture your victim

Why he first became involved with the cartels and how they operate In grim and graphic detail he offers a series of confessions: He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. Terrifying, but not to know this is ignorance.' ( Ed Vulliamy, author of Amexica) Reseña del editor:Ī fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head. The story of El Sicario is at once that of the killers and torturers who propel this nightmare, and a yearning for redemption from its opaque depths that resonate in all of us. Now, the master of border noir, Charles Bowden, and the chronicler of carnage from bloody day to bloody day, Molly Molloy, penetrate its dark heart. So far, we Cassandras who endeavour to report it do so from the outside. 'The Savagery in Mexico is our glimpse of the coming wars in this 21st century of globalised capitalism. ' 'There could be no better or more vivid description of what it takes to kill to order.Award-winning journalist Charles Bowden and Molly Molloy have collaborated in a chilling descriptive of the darker side of life in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico ****'' ( Irish News) It's bloody, scary and disturbing.'' ( Time Out) ''A glimpse into the brutal world of Mexican drug wars and a man tasked with pulling the trigger and torturing rivals.

El sicario confessions of a cartel hit man pdf