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Insurgency
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The export of cartel power into the USA is a sensitive issue. The discussion about Mexican cartels’ northward push gets pulled, often unfairly, into the flaming American immigration debate. The anti-immigrant brigade talk about Mexican laborers as an invading army; and they see all undocumented workers as potential cartel emissaries, using migrant communities to hide undercover ops. The Mexican Drug War, they say, is a reason to militarize the border. Residents of border states vex about the dan
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― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
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Many reports have gone into the social impact of such terror. But a central question is still hotly debated: Why? Why do cartel soldiers hack off heads, ambush policemen, and set off car bombs? And why do they throw grenades into crowds of revelers or massacre innocent teenagers at parties? What do they stand to gain by such bloodshed? Whom are they fighting? What do they want?
This puzzle goes to the heart of the debate about what El Narco has become. For the gangsters’ motivations in many ways
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― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
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