Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (594 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MQWWTTQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 387 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Los Zetas Inc. is essential reading for all those who seek to develop a viable strategy for stopping violence in Mexico." (Sergio Aguayo, Professor, El Colegio de México)"Correa-Cabrera presents us with a superbly researched, beautifully written, and timely new book on the Zetas organized crime group in Mexico, one of the country’s most notorious and brutal criminal organizations. She goes beyond the simplistic view of Los Zetas as a drug-trafficking organization and shows how they have diversified into many different sectors, including different components of the lucrative energy sect
Arguing that the elevated level of violence between the Zetas and the Mexican state resembles a civil war, Correa-Cabrera identifies the beneficiaries of this war, including arms-producing companies, the international banking system, the US border economy, the US border security/military-industrial complex, and corporate capital, especially international oil and gas companies.. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a drug trafficking organization, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera builds a convincing case that the Zetas and similar organizations effectively constitute transnational corporations with business practices that include the trafficking of crude oil, natural gas, and gasoline; migrant and weapons smuggling; kidnapping for ransom
. She is the author of Democracy in “Two Mexicos”: Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León and a frequent commentator in national and international news media on drug trafficking issues and drug violence in Mexico. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is an associate professor of public affairs and security studies at the University of Texas Rio