To die in Mexico : dispatches from inside the drug war

par Gibler, John

City Lights Books

2011 -

Disponible - 328(80) GIB

Niveau 2 - Politique

Résumé : Mexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused over $130 billion into Mexico's economy, now the country's single largest source of income. Corruption and graft infiltrate all levels of government. Entire towns have become ungovernable, and of every 100 people killed, Mexican police now only investigate approximately 5 eases. But the market is booming: In 2009, more people in the United States bought recreational drugs than ever before. In 2009, the United Nations reported that some $350 billion in drug money had been successfully laundered into the global banking system the prior year, saving it from collapse. How does an "extra" $350 billion in the global economy affect the murder rate in Mexico? To get the story and connect the dogs, acclaimed journalist John Gibler travels across Mexico and slips behind the frontlines to talk with people who live in towns under assault: newspaper reporters and crime-beat photographers, funeral parlor workers, convicted drug traffickers, government officials, cab drivers and others who find themselves living on the lawless frontiers of the drug war. Gibler tells hair-raising stories of wild street battles, kidnappings, narrow escapes, politicians on the take, and the ordinary people who fight for justice as they seek solutions to the crisis that is tearing Mexico apart. Fast-paced and urgent, To Die in Mexico is an extraordinary look inside the raging drug war, and its global implications. - Note de l'éditeur

Criminal insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas : the gangs and cartels wage war

par Bunker, Robert (1918-....)

Routledge

2013 -

Disponible - 328(80) BUN

Niveau 2 - Politique

Résumé : In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have exposed the porosity of the border. These cartels declare no allegiance to any nation and are engaging in asymmetrical warfare against sovereign states throughout Mexico and in Central America. Within such states, de facto political control is shifting to the cartels in the ‘areas of impunity’ that have emerged. This book addresses these concerns and focuses on the criminal insurgencies being waged by the gangs and cartels. It is divided into sections on theory, Mexico, and the Americas and contains a number of introductory essays pertaining to this premier security threat to the United States and her allies in the region. Topics covered include criminal and spiritual insurgency, cartel weapons, corruption, feral cities, Los Zetas, politicized gangs, and threat analysis in Central America. - Note de l'éditeur

Le combat continue : résister à la mafia et à la corruption

par Saviano, Roberto (1979-....)

R. Laffont

2012 -

Disponible - 343.94 SAV

Niveau 3 - Droit

Résumé : Ces 8 monologues écrits par R. Saviano pour l'émission italienne "Vieni via con me" traitant de sujets aussi divers que les nouveaux mécanismes de la censure, l'expansion de la criminalité organisée dans le nord de l'Italie, l'Eglise face à l'euthanasie, les déchets toxiques à Naples ou le tremblement de terre de L'Aquila. Un portrait tout en nuances de l'Italie d'aujourd'hui.

Prostitution, la mondialisation incarnée / : Points de vue du sud

Syllepse

2005 -

Disponible - 300.63 POU

Niveau 2 - Sociologie, démographie

Résumé : Analyse l'impact de la mondialisation capitaliste sur le marché du sexe et de la prostitution.

Le crime du vicomte de Rochechouart, 1512 : enquête sur le contexte politique, social et juridique d'une ténébreuse affaire

par Llobet, Gabriel de (1936-....)

Pulim

2016 -

Disponible - 944.71 LLO

Niveau 2 - Histoire

Résumé : Le 25 juin 1512, Pierre Bermondet, conseiller du roi et lieutenant du Limousin, meurt assassiné par des argousins au service de François de Pontville, vicomte de Rochechouart. L'historien revient sur le contexte social de l'époque pour éclaircir les motivations de ce meurtre, en se fondant sur de nombreuses archives. ©Electre 2016

Les morts de la Deûle : une enquête dans le Nord

par Statius, Tomas

Lattès

2021 -

Disponible - 079.3 STA

Niveau 1 - Presse

Résumé : Une enquête journalistique sur la série de décès entre octobre 2010 et novembre 2011, aux abords du canal de la Deûle. Souvent classées sans suite, ces affaires ont été reprises en main, révélant un point commun à ces meurtres, à savoir l'implication des skinheads néonazis. ©Electre 2021

A narco history : how the United States and Mexico jointly created the "Mexican drug war"

par Boullosa, Carmen (1954-....) ; Wallace, Mike (1942-....)

OR Books in partnership with Counterpoint Press

2016 -

Disponible - 328(80) NAR

Niveau 2 - Politique

Résumé : The term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer—with increasingly deadly consequences. Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hugely from supplying Americans with what their government forbade them. But the policies that spawned the drug war have proved disastrous for both countries. Written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, A Narco History reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to end it. - Note de l'éditeur

Qu'est-ce que la globalisation ?

O. Jacob

2004 -

Disponible - 334.113 QUE

Niveau 3 - Economie

Résumé : Ces vingt-cinq conférences analysent différents aspects de la mondialisation : géographiques (J. Lévy), économiques (Y. Moulier-Boutang), financiers (H. Rey), viraux (A.-M. Moulin), militaires (P. Hassner), migratoires (G.-F. Dumont)...