The Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy’s
2012 – 2013 Ambassador John Price & Marcia Price World Affairs Lecture Series
In partnership with Westminster College
El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-growing mountains. And, it has created paramilitary death squads with tens of thousands of men at arms from Guatemala to the Texas border. Drawing on his decade inside Mexico, Grillo goes beyond the abstract, shapeless statistics of drug tonnage and dollar values with countless zeros, and sheds light on the often shadowy power that has torn our nearest neighbor apart in its first decade as a true democracy.
About Ioan Grillo:
Ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001 for international media, including Time magazine, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, the Houston Chronicle, CBC and Sunday Telegraph. He has witnessed military operations, mafia killings, and cocaine seizures, and has discussed the drug war with two Mexican presidents, three attorney generals, and the U.S. ambassador. A native of England, he lives in Mexico City.
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