Over the past five years, the Mexican drug war has claimed the lives of an estimated 40,000 civilians and drug traffickers. British journalist Ioan Grillo describes it as "a bloodbath that has shocked ...

Had I never done those things, I'd never believe the stories author Ioan Grillo tells me in his fine book, El Narco: inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency (New York: Bloomsbury Press; 321pp, 2011). For ...

HOYLAKE, InglaterraHOYLAKE, Inglaterra — El argentino Emiliano Grillo embocó un putt desde larga distancia en el 18vo hoyo para quedar el jueves como uno de los líderes del Abierto Británico de golf.

In this excerpt from El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, journalist Ioan Grillo describes what it is like to step inside a Mexican warehouse filled with confiscated drugs. To a hard-core ...

This is not a book for the faint-hearted, with its unremitting accounts of corruption, kidnapping, rape, torture and mass murder that has resulted in more than 50,000 dead and thousands missing at the ...

Grillo, a seasoned reporter on the Mexican narcotics industry, offers a propulsive account of the blood-soaked machinery of "El Narco," the shadowy complex of drug cartels, street gangs, and ...

There have been more than 34,000 casualties in the Mexican drug war of the past decade. For a criminal conspiracy, the numbers beggar belief. It has been too easy for the world to step back and blame ...