Summary of Ioan Grillo's El Narco

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I spoke to Gonzalo in a prison cell he shares with eight others on a sunny Tuesday morning in Ciudad Juárez. He had spent seventeen years working as a soldier, kidnapper, and murderer for Mexican drug gangs. In that time, he took the lives of many, many more people than he can count. #2 I visited a jail block mass before I sat down with Gonzalo. The pastor, a convicted drug trafficker, mixed stories of ancient