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"Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields & the New Politics of Latin America
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Date:
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Time:
7:30 PM
-
9:30 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Bob Baldock
Email:
Phone:
5108485006
Address:
KPFA - 1929 M.L.K. Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA
Location Details:
First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way,
Berkeley, CA.
A new kind of criminal 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 human beings. What they do affects you now—from the gas in your car... to the tens of thousands of Latin Americans wanting refugee status in the U.S. From the author of the critically acclaimed El Narco, Ioan Grillo brings us the shocking story of these ruthless men who command the cartels through Latin America. This is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean, regions largely abandoned by the U.S. after the Cold War.
“Terrific...Essential reading.” —Steve Coll, The New Yorker
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 disturbing new understanding of a war that has now spun out of control— one that people across the political spectrum must confront right now.
For more information:
http://www.kpfa.org/events
Added to the calendar on Sat, Dec 19, 2015 11:41AM
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