La Familia drug cartel : implications for U.S.-Mexican security / George W. Grayson.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Grayson, George W., 1938-2015, author.

Contributor:

Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organized crime--Mexico.

Organized crime.

Drug traffic--Mexico.

Drug traffic.

Narco-terrorism--Mexico.

Narco-terrorism.

Terrorism--Mexico--Religious aspects.

Terrorism.

Drug control--Mexico.

Drug control.

Drug control--United States.

National security--Mexico.

National security.

National security--United States.

Mexico--Politics and government.

Mexico.

Politics and government.

Terrorism--Religious aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 111 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010.

Summary:

"La Familia Michoacana burst onto the national stage on September 6, 2006, when ruffians crashed into the seedy Sol y Sombra nightclub in Uruapan, Michoacán, and fired shots into the air. They screamed at the revelers to lie down, ripped open a plastic bag, and lobbed five human heads onto the beer-stained black and white dance floor. The day before these macabre pyrotechnics, the killers seized their prey from a mechanic's shop and hacked off their heads with bowie knives while the men writhed in pain. "You don't do something like that unless you want to send a big message," said a U.S. law-enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity about an act of human depravity that would "cast a pall over the darkest nooks of hell." The desperados left behind a note hailing their act as "divine justice," adding that: "The Family doesn't kill for money; it doesn't kill women; it doesn't kill innocent people; only those who deserve to die, die. Everyone should know ... this is divine justice." While claiming to do the "Lord's work," the ruthless leaders of this syndicate have emerged as the dominant exporter of methamphetamines to the United States, even as they control scores of municipalities in Michoacán and neighboring states"--SSI website.

Notes:

PDF version; title from title screen (viewed Dec. 16, 2010).

"December 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-100).

Other Format:

Print version: Grayson, George W., 1938- Familia drug cartel

ISBN:

1584874716

9781584874713

OCLC:

693211280

Access Restriction:

No restrictions on access.