San Antonio College Library

A former U.S. Customs agent who worked on the border between Arizona and Mexico describes his twenty years on patrol with his fellow "Border Rats" and the chaos, brutality, and suffering he witnessed.

Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the skeleton key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Phil Jordan runs DEA intelligence, but when his brother Bruno is killed, he is powerless. Amado Carrillo Fuentes runs the most successful drug business in the...

"This book tells the story of the poor, often indigenous workers living in the borderlands who are recruited to work in the lowest echelons of the drug trade, as burreros (mules) and narcotraficantes (traffickers). Shayleh Muehlmann spent over a year researching in a small community in the borderlands. This book brings her stories to a wider public, narrating the experiences of a group of indigenous fishermen in northern Mexico who have become involved...

A social science study of the Mexican drug war in the early twenty-first century, focusing on people and events along the border of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

Provides accounts of the people involved in drug trafficking.