Ioan Grillo

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About Ioan Grillo

Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media including TIME magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the Sunday Telegraph. His first book, El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, was translated into five languages and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A native of England, Grillo lives in Mexico City.

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El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels 01/11/2011

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'War' is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorized Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count- 23,000 dead in five years - and sheer horror beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is creeping northward.

El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. It is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan Grillo traces the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal empires. The narco cartels are a threat to the Mexican government, and their violence has now reached as far as North Carolina.

El Narco is required reading for anyone concerned about one of the most important news stories of the decade.

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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America 11/02/2016

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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a crystal meth maker is venerated as a saint while imposing Old Testament justice on his enemies.

A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns and humans. Who are these new masters of death? What personal qualities and life experiences have made them into such bloodthirsty leaders of men? What do they represent and stand for? What has happened in the Americas to allow them to grow and flourish?

Author of the critically acclaimed El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001, and gained access to every level of the cartel chain-of-command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. Moving between militia-controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers, Grillo provides a new and disturbing understanding of a war that has spiralled out of control – one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now.

Gangster Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean.

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Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels 04/03/2021

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From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade.

Guns from America reach more than 130 countries, and inundate Mexico, with over 200,000 guns every year crossing the border and arming the drug cartels. In this groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, master of reportage Ioan Grillo delves into the enormous black market for firearms in the Americas: he travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles of gun shows and gun shops, hangs out on Baltimore street corners, talks to federal agents who have infiltrated gangs, and visits the ATF gun tracing centre in West Virginia. Along the way, Grillo lays bare the many ways that guns slip through the legal cracks and into the hands of criminals, fuelling violence among Mexico's powerful cartels and beyond.

At a time when debates around gun control are rife, this gripping exposé draws a startling a connection between guns and the global drug trade, revealing them to be key accessories in our epidemics of addiction.

Praise for Ioan Grillo

'Grillo is a breathtakingly intrepid reporter, diving in where police fear to tread, seeking out men who wouldn't hesitate to kill him' Mail on Sunday

'Tenacious, riveting, hair-raising reportage' Financial Times

'Dogged, impassioned and courageous reporting ... There is no doubting his expertise, his compassion or his grit' Daily Express

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Caudillos del crimen: De la Guerra Fría a las narcoguerras (Spanish Edition) 15/07/2016

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En un escalofriante recorrido, Ian Grillo se adentra en los dominios de las cuatro organizaciones criminales más violentas de América Latina.

De Ioan Grillo, autor del bestseller El narco.

Un libro que te vuela la tapa de los sesos y uno de los documentos más importantes de la última década sobre delincuencia organizada en América Latina.

Ioan Grillo emprende un escalofriante recorrido por diversos campos de batalla de la región. Con osadía excepcional, se adentra en los dominios de cuatro organizaciones criminales: el Comando Rojo en Brasil, la Shower Posse en Jamaica, la Mara Salvatrucha en Centroamérica y los Caballeros Templarios en México.

En una investigación periodística de primer nivel, Grillo pone al descubierto diversas redes delictivas donde confluyen pandillas, mafias, escuadrones de la muerte y cultos religiosos. Uno de sus objetivos principales es interpretar los mecanismos de la violencia demente así como las motivaciones de los adictos... al gatillo.

Mezcla de empresarios, terroristas y estrellas de rock, los caudillos del crimen lanzan ataques propios de una guerrilla, operan como fuerzas políticas e intimidan gobiernos, combaten a sus rivales y se hacen cargo de una gran parte del comercio mundial de estupefacientes, armas y seres humanos. El lector se encuentra así ante la temible visión de una guerra que está fuera de control y que sigue cobrando vidas diariamente.

La crítica ha opinado:

"Una sorprendente exploración de los horrores de la violencia en el hemisferio occidental" -Kirkus Reviews-

"Es un oficio tenso y agotador, pero en este libro Ioan Grillo ha alcanzado varios logros espectaculares" -Misha Glenny, The New York Times-

"Ioan Grillo es un reportero intrépido que te quita el aliento; visita lugares en los que la policía no se atrevería a entrar y busca a personajes que no dudarían en matarlo" -Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday-

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