Books on drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

José Reveles El Chapo: entrega y traición (El Chapo: Surrender and Betrayal) ISBN: 9786073124355 216 pp PB $10.00 BISAC: TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime Trim size: 5” x 7.5”  In contrast with the official truths, José Reveles explores various hypotheses about the unexpected capture, which occurred on February 22, 2014 in Mazatlan, Sinaloa: from geolocation possible through chips implanted under the skin, through the unlikely collaboration of informer Mayo Zambada and his son Vicentillo to the treachery within the ranks of Guzman Loera. With the vibrant pulse that characterizes his writing skills, the author discovers a complex plot involving media cover-ups, uncooperative authorities, the interference of US intelligence agencies, and the death struggle for succession in the structure of the Sinaloa cartel. And where are the billions of dollars that Forbes reported? Thus, after all the propaganda that marked the recapture of El Chapo, José Reveles explains the rearranged drug trafficking map and also draws attention to the violent scenarios presented in several parts of the country, like Michoacan, a state whose security crisis could be traced in an unusual way as far as China. Anabel Hernández Los señores del narco (The Drug Lords) ISBN: 9786073121743 576 pp. PB $15.50 BISAC: TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime Trim size: 5” x 7.5”  This second edition of The drug lords, revised and updated, includes an unpublished interview of El Chapo with the DEA. Anabel Hernandez had access not only to a vast documentation, unpublished until today, but to direct evidence of authorities and experts in the field, as well as with people involved in the major Mexican drug cartels. This has allowed him to rigorously examine the origin of the gory power struggle between criminal groups, and question the "war" of the federal government against organized crime. To investigate the intricate networks of collusion, the author had to go back to the 1970s, when drug trade was controlled basically by having narcos pay taxes to the government. In his haunting journey he moves into the 1980’s, when the heads of the criminal organization in the Pacific, sponsored by the CIA, ventured into the lucrative business of cocaine, and leads us to the emergence of powerful drug lords like the Beltran Leyva brothers, Ismael May Zambada or Joaquin Guzman Loera, who managed to penetrate state structures to service them. After tearing down the myth of the escape of El Chapo from the Puente Grande prison in a laundry van, this book chronicles his rise in the hierarchy of crime and how it has taken immeasurable consequences to create a "pact of impunity" with many public officials and businessmen. This book, in short, is presented as a stunning journey into the world of drug trafficking to seek what creates them, and he has discovered each one.