This book is part of Anabel Hernández's long journalistic journey within the complex world of organized crime in Mexico. It continues her relentless search to understand the drug cartels' various components which have plunged the country in a downward spiral of violence for decades, and one in which dozens of innocent people are exploited, disappeared, or killed every day, many of them female. Since publishing her bestseller
Los señores del narco/Narcoland, this is perhaps the most intimate contact to the leadership in drug trafficking, a behind-the-scenes look at what happens in the multimillion-dollar criminal business. In
Emma and Other Narco Women, Hernández exposes what's behind the veil and reveals their drive to seek power and money at all costs. The multi-award-winning and internationally recognized expert on the drug trafficking world, turns the table once again and offers readers an almost anthropological analysis of drug lords and those closest to their inner circle from a new point of view: the women within that world.
In these pages we see women such as Emma Coronel and other wives of important drug lords, a former Miss Universe, some of Mexico's most recognized and acclaimed actresses, singers, and television hosts from the past and from present time. Mothers, wives, and lovers. Women who conform to their masters' male chauvinistic rules and dance the dance of the seven veils for them -in private, at parties, or orgies-, and they do it on the conscience of thousands of victims of those same masters who they entertain in exchange for money, jewelry, and properties. Through interviews, witnesses to events, and the investigative meticulousness and that characterizes her, Anabel Hernández takes the reader to family gatherings, parties, and even inside the bedrooms of various drug bosses where we witness love stories, the sale of goods, the sale of sexual favors, incest, betrayals, and revenge. An, until now, secret world.
Author: Anabel HernándezPublisher: Grijalbo
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781644734636
ISBN10: 164473463X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:-
True Crime |
Organized Crime-
Social Science |
Women's Studies-
Social Science |
Violence in SocietyAbout the Author
Anabel Hernández es una las periodistas de investigación más importantes en México. En 2002 ganó el Premio Nacional de Periodismo por su investigación sobre el llamado Toallagate. En 2003 Unicef le dio un reconocimiento por una serie de reportajes sobre la esclavitud sexual infantil en Estados Unidos. En 2012, la Asociación Mundial de Periódicos y Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA) le otorgó el Premio Pluma de Oro de la Libertad. En 2014 obtuvo el premio Voz de los Sin Voz de la Casa Anunciación en El Paso, Texas; la Asociación de Periodistas de Países Bajos le otorgó el Hans Verploeg Memorial Fund y Reporteros sin Fronteras la incluyó en su lista de "100 héroes de la información". Fue seleccionada dos veces como Fellow del Investigative Reporting Program de la Universidad de California en Berkeley para los periodos 2014-2015 y 2015-2016. Ha colaborado con The Guardian, Le Monde, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Reforma, Proceso, Univisión y Telemundo. En Grijalbo ha publicado La familia presidencial (2005, en coautoría con Areli Quintero), Fin de fiesta en Los Pinos (2006), Los cómplices del presidente (2008), Los señores del narco (2010) y México en llamas (2012).
