El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
Ioan Grillo
A sobering report on how Mexican drug gangs are threatening democracy evaluates key debates in Washington while tracing the radical transformations of drug cartels throughout the past decade, providing coverage of their massive production farms and their formidable paramilitary death squads.
Award History
0 wins · 1 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestMajor | 2011 | Finalist | Secondary source |
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01 Central figures
None extracted with sufficient confidence.
02 Central places
- Mexico80%
03 Suggested argument
Mexican drug cartels are threatening democracy, and the report evaluates debates in Washington while tracing the cartels’ radical transformations over the past decade, including production farms and paramilitary death squads.
Model confidence 62%
04 Reading orientation
30 / 100 academicSerious trade
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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.