Sentences with phrase «narco violence»
Matthew Heineman «s «Cartel Land» is indeed a gruesome and riveting account of how the narco violence has kept entire towns in the state of Michoacán hostage, and how a group of civilians, the «Autodefensas,» took matters into their own hands and became a reactive form of rogue institution that had, initially, no ties to the federal government, but it's also a profoundly humanistic and intellectually complex work.
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The criminal narco - conflict in Mexico, for example, is the source of higher death rates than most wars, and violence in the favelas of Brazil can reach battlefield level.
Narcos is the story of the real - life drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, a poor country boy who used his wits and a whole lot of violence to make himself, at the height of his powers running the Colombian cocaine...
The Santa Blanca drug cartel has transformed the beautiful South American country of Bolivia into a perilous narco - state, leading to lawlessness, fear, and rampant violence.
The main cause of the violence was narco - traffic.
This border city was ahead of a bright and prosperous future, but then the narco - violence and drug - related business ruined it and left the city in a deep crisis.