Ioan Grillo
Författare till El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
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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 visa mer languages and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Orwell Prize. A native of Britain, Grillo lives in Mexico City. visa färre
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- Vedertaget namn
- Grillo, Ioan
- Födelsedag
- 1973
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- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Bostadsorter
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Agent
- Curtis Brown, Ltd.
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- 4
- Medlemmar
- 477
- Popularitet
- #51,683
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- 4.2
- Recensioner
- 20
- ISBN
- 34
- Språk
- 4
That reporting is eye-opening. He traces a number of large problems, including international and domestic terrorism, the Central American economic crisis and resulting migration to the US, and the drug trade to illegal weapons trafficking. It's a convincing argument.
The book ends with some sensible prescriptions for ending that trade. Taking those steps wouldn't infringe the Second Amendment's right to bear arms, even as interpreted by most conservatives. But, he argues, it would limit the ability of criminals and terrorists to get them, and reverse some of the social ills that they cause around the world.… (mer)