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Review: In The Shadow of Papillon – Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela’s Prison System – by Frank Kane with John Tilsley
Frank Kane and his girlfriend, Sam, after their business was failing in the U.K. made the fateful decision to become cocaine drug couriers in Venezuela. Whilst attempting to fly out from the airport on Caribbean Island, Isla de Margarita, the airport authorities stopped and searched them and discovered the smuggled contraband which was a few… Continue reading
Agua Verde, army, biography, British Consul, Cartel, COcaine, drug smuggling, El Dorado, Henri Charrière, Human rights, Isla Margarita, jail, John Tilsley, Latin America, Military, murder, narcotics, narcotrafficking, Papillon, prison, raqueta, San ANtonio, smuggling, Spanish, Travel, U.K., Venezuela, violence, war, warfare -
Review: Poverty Safari – Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass – by Darren McGarvey
Poverty Safari is a winner of the Orwell Prize in 2018. The author, Darren McGarvey offers us a biographical account of his life in working class Glasgow suburb Pollok. Darren is a rapper who does extensive community work and is also a socially conscious intelligent man with his finger on the pulse of the problems… Continue reading
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Review: Gangster Warlords – Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America – by Ioan Grillo
This is the second of Ioan Grillo’s books that I have read and I found this volume equally as good as my first encounter with this talented British journalist. Gangster Warlords focuses on 4 separate crime gangs across the Americas. For each group we identify leaders, politics, often brutal and horrendous crimes and a link… Continue reading
autodefensas, bocas, Brasil, Brazil, British, caribbean, Christopher Michael Coke, COcaine, Comando Vermelho, crystal meth, drug war, Dudus, El Chayo, El más loco, el salvador, favelas, gangs, Gangster, Gangster Warlords, honduras, Ioan Grillo, Jamaica, Knights Templar, La Familia Michoacana, Latin America, mara salvatrucha, marijuana, Mexico, ms-13, narcotics, Nazario, Nazario Moreno, Northern Triangle, red commando, rio, Shower Posse, Sinaloa, The Maddest One, violence, war on drugs, William da Silva Lima, Yardie -
Review: Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín – by Gabriela Polit Dueñas
The author is exploring the impact of local culture on the artistic output of Narcoculture in the form of literature and art in two specific par excellence Narco cities in Latin America. We are introduced to the Culichis of Culiacán in Mexicos Sinaloa and they can be contrasted with the paisas of Medellín in Colombia.… Continue reading
Colombia, Culiacán, Culichi, drug war, El Chapo, Gabriela Polit Duenas, Latin America, Medellin, Mexico, narco-trafficking, Narcocultura, Narcoculture, narconovela, Narcos, narcotics, Narrating Narcos, Pablo Escobar, paisa, parlache, President Calderon, shantytowns, sicaresca, sicario, Sinaloa, Sinaloa Cartel, violence, war on drugs
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