Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

By Ioan Grillo

On a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner leaves five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil’s biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southwest Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemie…