{"product_id":"los-zetas-inc-criminal-corporations-energy-and-civil-war-in-mexico-hardback-9781477312742","title":"Los Zetas Inc.; Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (Hardback) 9781477312742","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLos Zetas Inc.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCriminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGuadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477312742, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 August 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Correa-Cabrera’s book approaches the Mexican Drug War through an analysis of the Zetas-the most powerful, well-armed, and technologically-advanced criminal corporation in Mexico. . . . This impressive contribution reveals the horrific realities, complexities, and products of neoliberal capitalism-though it is not so much of a “new” violence as much as an evolution of existing forms of it.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (NACLA: The Report on the Americas) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The strength of Correa’s book is that she links security and political economy outcomes in Mexico in a way that is not reductionist. That is, she avoids ascribing the economic outcomes of the Mexican drug war to the logic of neoliberalism or of capitalism more generally, but rather considers the complex political mediations between the calculations of political elites and the expansion of transnational extractive activities in Mexico.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Yerepouni News) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLos Zetas Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e is a state of the art study of organized crime and drug trafficking studies in Mexico...It is a major book that should be required reading in social sciences classes on contemporary Mexico.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Mexican Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This book is most assuredly a strong contribution…[Correa-Cabrera] develops a fine-grained analysis of what is taking place in Tamaulipas much more thoroughly than anyone before, and the reader can easily appreciate what goes into making what is happening here a security crisis that goes far beyond the state.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Americas) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Timely…useful for students and scholars interested in Mexico's Drug War, or, more generally, in the relationship between 'development' and the violence that so often accompanies natural resource booms.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Latin American Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[Correa-Cabrera] not only provides great historical detail on the formation, evolution, and internal organization of the Zetas, but also offers a careful review of Mexico's most recent political and economic reforms, which are deeply related to changes in the criminal organization...the many thought-provoking concepts, analyses, and new forms of evidence Correa-Cabrera presents should push Mexican policymakers and organized crime experts alike to formulate and answer new and urgent questions to better understand, and hopefully help resolve, a reality that has led to the deaths and disappearances of tens of thousands of people across the country.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Latin American Politics and Society) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eLos Zetas Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e] provides new arguments and fresh perspectives on the already existing works about transnational criminal organisations, how they work, links to energy firms, and paramilitary characteristics of drug cartels in Mexico. The book shows extensive research as well as concrete evidence which demonstrates that Correa-Cabrera’s main aim is to depict Los Zetas as a criminal enterprise that has roots in a business corporation model, and the widespread power a drug cartel can achieve within a country.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Bulletin of Latin American Research)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government’s response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. \u003ci\u003eLos Zetas Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a drug trafficking organization, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera builds a convincing case that the Zetas and similar organizations effectively constitute transnational corporations with business practices that include the trafficking of crude oil, natural gas, and gasoline; migrant and weapons smuggling; kidnapping for ransom; and video and music piracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining vivid interview commentary with in-depth analysis of organized crime as a transnational and corporate phenomenon, \u003ci\u003eLos Zetas Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the emerging face, new structure, and economic implications of organized crime in Mexico. Correa-Cabrera delineates the Zetas establishment, structure, and forms of operation, along with the reactions to this new model of criminality by the state and other lawbreaking, foreign, and corporate actors. Since the Zetas share some characteristics with legal transnational businesses that operate in the energy and private security industries, she also compares this criminal corporation with ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Blackwater (renamed “Academi” and now a Constellis company). Asserting that the elevated level of violence between the Zetas and the Mexican state resembles a civil war, Correa-Cabrera identifies the beneficiaries of this war, including arms-producing companies, the international banking system, the US border economy, the US border security\/military-industrial complex, and corporate capital, especially international oil and gas companies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Maps, Tables, and Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection I. The Zetas: Criminal Paramilitaries in a Transnational Business \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. The Zetas’\u003cbr\u003e Origins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. The Zetas’\u003cbr\u003e War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. A Transnational Criminal Corporation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection II. Mexico’\u003cbr\u003es Drug War: A Modern Civil War? \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Paramilitarization of Organized Crime and a “\u003cbr\u003eWar on Drugs”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. The New Paramilitarism in Mexico\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Mexico’\u003cbr\u003es Modern Civil War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection III. Los Zetas Incorporated \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. The Zetas’\u003cbr\u003e War and Mexico’\u003cbr\u003es Energy Sector\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Energy and Security in Tamaulipas, Ground Zero for the Zetas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Who Benefits from the Zetas’\u003cbr\u003e War?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. Four Successful Business Models in an Era of Modern Civil Wars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 1. Energy Reform and the Zetas’\u003cbr\u003e Expansion (Timeline)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 2. History of Organized Crime in Tamaulipas: Timeline of Key Events\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 3. Map of Criminal Paramilitaries and Natural Resources in Mexico\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 4. El disfraz de la guerra (The War’\u003cbr\u003es Disguise): CommuniquÉ\u003cbr\u003e by Residents of La RibereÑ\u003cbr\u003ea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 5. Organizational Charts: Constellis Holdings, LLC, and Los Zetas Inc.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 6. Areas of Dominant Influence of Major TCOs in Mexico, 2015\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589119799576,"sku":"9781477312742","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/los-zetas-inc-criminal-corporations-energy-and-civil-war-in-mexico-hardback-9781477312742","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}