Narconomics: How to Run a Drug CartelPublicAffairs, 2016 M02 23 - 288 páginas Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola. And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might better understand how they work -- and stop throwing away 100 billion a year in a futile effort to win the "war" against this global, highly organized business. Your intrepid guide to the most exotic and brutal industry on earth is Tom Wainwright. Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. The cast of characters includes "Bin Laden," the Bolivian coca guide; Old Lin," the Salvadoran gang leader; "Starboy," the millionaire New Zealand pill maker; and a cozy Mexican grandmother who cooks blueberry pancakes while plotting murder. Along with presidents, cops, and teenage hitmen, they explain such matters as the business purpose for head-to-toe tattoos, how gangs decide whether to compete or collude, and why cartels care a surprising amount about corporate social responsibility. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them. |
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... killed by the police or army, and two “executed”—that is, murdered by their business rivals. Further strikes were to follow: in July 2013, eight months after President Calderón left office, the Zetas' supreme leader, Miguel Ángel ...
... killed by the police or army, and two “executed”—that is, murdered by their business rivals. Further strikes were to follow: in July 2013, eight months after President Calderón left office, the Zetas' supreme leader, Miguel Ángel ...
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... killed with high-caliber rounds from the muzzle of a cuerno de chivo, or “goat horn,” as AK-47 rifles are known, owing to their curved magazine. Many of the dead had come from out of town—perhaps as traveling hit men, or else as their ...
... killed with high-caliber rounds from the muzzle of a cuerno de chivo, or “goat horn,” as AK-47 rifles are known, owing to their curved magazine. Many of the dead had come from out of town—perhaps as traveling hit men, or else as their ...
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... killed while under the knife. But a few months later, the bodies of three of the doctors who performed the botched operation were discovered encased in concrete inside sixty-six-gallon oil drums. The cartel suffered another blow when ...
... killed while under the knife. But a few months later, the bodies of three of the doctors who performed the botched operation were discovered encased in concrete inside sixty-six-gallon oil drums. The cartel suffered another blow when ...
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... killed in prison, in what may have been retaliation. Four relatively calm years passed before one of El Chapo's sons, Édgar Guzmán, was shot dead outside a shopping center in Sinaloa. (Legend has it that on Mother's Day, two days later ...
... killed in prison, in what may have been retaliation. Four relatively calm years passed before one of El Chapo's sons, Édgar Guzmán, was shot dead outside a shopping center in Sinaloa. (Legend has it that on Mother's Day, two days later ...
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... kills a policeman, they mobilize the force of the state. And the cabrón gets forty years in jail, and he doesn't escape. Those are the unwritten rules. Here, they [the traffickers] kill policemen as if they were lead soldiers.” There is ...
... kills a policeman, they mobilize the force of the state. And the cabrón gets forty years in jail, and he doesn't escape. Those are the unwritten rules. Here, they [the traffickers] kill policemen as if they were lead soldiers.” There is ...
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THE PEOPLE PROBLEMS OF A DRUG CARTEL | 53 |
PR AND THE MADMEN OF SINALOA | 77 |
OFFSHORING | 103 |
Photo Section | 125 |
THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF FRANCHISING | 133 |
ORDERING A LINE ONLINE | 167 |
DIVERSIFYING INTO NEW MARKETS | 193 |
COMING FULL CIRCLE | 215 |
WHY ECONOMISTS MAKE THE BEST POLICE OFFICERS | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 255 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 267 |
INNOVATING AHEADOF THE LAW | 149 |
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