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With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and author Michael Deibert zeroes in on the story of the Gulf Cartel drug trafficking organization, their deadly war with their former allies Los Zetas, the cartels connections in Mexican politics and what its trajectory means for Mexicos--and Americas--future.Punctuated by the disappearance of busloads of full of people from Mexican highways, heavy-weapon firefights in once-picturesque colonial towns and the discovery of mass graves, nowhere has the violence of Mexicos drug war been more intense than directly across the border from East Texas, the scene of a scorched-earth war between two of Mexicos largest drug trafficking organizations The Gulf Cartel, a criminal body with roots stretching back to Prohibition, and Los Zetas, a group famous for their savagery and largely made up of deserters form Mexicos armed forces.



About the Author

Michael Deibert

Michael Deibert is the author of Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History (Zed Books, 2017) , In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico (Lyons Press, 2014) , The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books, 2013) , published in cooperation with the Royal African Society, the International African Institute and the World Peace Foundation, and Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti (Seven Stories Press, 2005) .

Michael's writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, Le Monde diplomatique, Folha de São Paulo, World Policy Journal, and The Huffington Post, among other venues. He has been a featured commentator on international affairs on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, National Public Radio, WNYC New York Public Radio, and KPFK Pacifica Radio.

In 2012, he was awarded a grant from the International Peace Research Association, and in 2008 he was selected as a ?nalist for the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, sponsored by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, both in recognition of his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Michael's blog can be read at http://www.michaeldeibert.blogspot.com/ and he can be followed on Twitter at twitter.com/michaelcdeibert.


Photo (C) Hilary Wallis



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