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About a billionaire Mexican drug lord who flew the skies with 747s loaded with cocaine, about Mexican presidential families with tens of millions of dollars of reputed payoffs stashed in Swiss bank accounts, about people routinely machine-gunned to death in border town turf battles, about a borderland seemingly turned into a safe haven for traffickers by government eager to cash in on the drug trade. Demand Publications is proud to present to you the only book that has ever penetrated the secrets of the Mexican underworld and made sense of the growing volume of media reports about this disturbing reality. Drug Lord, by award winning journalist Terrence Poppa, a tale of drug dealing, murder and endemic corruption that reaches into the highest levels of the Mexican government. It is a first-hand account that focuses on Pablo Acosta, a border bandit and drug baron who smuggled a staggering sixty tons of cocaine per year into the United States. 
Using materials based on daring interviews with Acosta and other narcotics traffickers, the author traces the drug lord’s rise and fall: from humble beginnings, his evolution in the border criminal underworld, the succession of drug lords who controlled the region’s crime until Pablo Acosta was able to take over with the help of high-level protection within the government of Mexico. There are vivid descriptions of shoot outs, showdowns and OK Corral gunfights over control of the region’s crime operations, most notably the drug smuggling up and down the border. There are action-packed profiles of the people surrounding the drug lord, and insights into the political system that allowed all of this to happen. Chapter after chapter, it is a unique voyage into the heart of a treacherous nether world. In this web site, we are offering you a rare glimpse of this world and an introduction to a book that is worthy of the attention of anyone concerned about the exploding drug problems of America today. You will find photos taken by the author of Pablo Acosta only six months before the drug lord’s death in a muddy Rio Grande village. You will learn about the early career of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Pablo Acosta’s partner who later became one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world - "The Lord of the Skies." You can hear selections of taped interviews with the Mexican drug lord, who, in broken English, between swigs of El Presidente brandy and tokes of crack laced Marlboro cigarettes, brags to the author about murders, smuggling, payoffs, charitable works, and much much more. Additionally, you will find selections from this book, one of them an analysis of the structure of crime protection in Mexico, and a sample chapter showing how this nefarious system used and used up a series of traffickers even before Pablo Acosta came on the scene. An insightful foreword to Drug Lord written by Peter Lupsha, an internationally recognized expert on drug trafficking and transnational organized crime, places the importance of this book in its context and explains the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the books origin. Finally, we are offering you the opportunity to order this fascinating book directly from the publisher. For your convenience, we have set up a toll-free line to take your order and have your copy sent the very same day! Or, you can opt to email an order form or send a check or money order. |
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