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El Narco Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

Ioan Grillo

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 Ameri...

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The Joe Rogan Experience

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The Joe Rogan Experience

It was mentioned by name that this book was released, along with information about it containing details about the drug war in Mexico.

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His books "El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency" and "Gangster Warlords" are available now.

— Episode: #1253 - Ioan Grillo

Episode: #1253 - Ioan Grillo

It was mentioned by name that this book was released, along with information about it containing details about the drug war in Mexico.

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His books "El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency" and "Gangster Warlords" are available now.

My first book is El Narco my second book is Gangsta Walords which also has uh um stuff on the MS 13 on the gangs in Brazil the gangs in Jamaica as well as Mexico and I'm working on my third book now and the third book is about about gun trafficking

The Underworld Podcast

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The Underworld Podcast

The hosts recommended the title, calling it fantastic and noting they had interviewed the author three times on the show. They highlighted its thorough coverage of the criminal insurgency, including the role of Chinese margin workers who turned to opium cultivation after Prohibition ended. The discussion conveyed strong enthusiasm for the book’s insights.

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Episode: El Mayo: The Undisputed King of Mexico & the Betra...

It was recommended by the hosts, they interviewed the author three times. The book was said to be fantastic.

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In Owen Grillo's El Narco, I think we've interviewed him what? Three times on this podcast. But that book is also fantastic.

Episode: A Cop-Cartel Heist and Sky High Homicide Rates: Wh...

The podcast host mentioned the book in the context of Chinese margin workers starting to grow opium in Mexico. It was discussed how they made a lot of money smuggling during Prohibition and needed a new product after it was repealed, which led them to take over opium fields.

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Yeah, I think they talk about this either in El Narco or in Sam Quinonez's book or in both about how the people who started growing opium in Mexico were Chinese margin workers, I think, right?

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