El Sicario

Confessions of a Cartel Hitman

Charles Bowden, Molly Molloy

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Vintage
01 June 2011

Biography; Autobiography: general; Drugs trade & trafficking; Political corruption

"Now an Oscar-contender film featuring Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro. I'm going to tell you about 20 years of my life dedicated to serving the cartel. Serving them with these hands. Torturing people. And killing.

Now an Oscar-contender film featuring Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro. I'm going to tell you about 20 years of my life dedicated to serving the cartel. Serving them with these hands. Torturing people. And killing.

In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the Americans. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained in the US by the FBI, and who for twenty years kidnapped, tortured and murdered people for the drug industry at the behest of Mexican drug cartels. He is a hit man who came off the killing fields alive. He left the business and turned to Christ. And then he decided to tell the story of his life and work.

Charles Bowden first encountered El Sicario while reporting for the book ""Murder City"". As trust between the two men developed, Bowden bore witness to the Sicario's unfolding confession, and decided to tell his story. The well-spoken man that emerges from the pages of El Sicario is one who has been groomed by poverty and driven by a refusal to be one more statistic in the failure of Mexico. He is not boastful, he claims no major standing in organized crime. But he can explain in detail not only torture and murder, but how power is distributed and used in the arrangement between the public Mexican state and law enforcement on the ground - where terror and slaughter are simply tools in implementing policy for both the police and the cartels. And he is not an outlaw or a rebel. He is the state.

When he headed the state police anti-kidnapping squad in Juarez, he was also running a kidnapping ring in Juarez. When he was killing people for money in Juarez, he was sharpening his marksmanship at the Federal Police range. Now he lives in the United States as a fugitive. One cartel has a quarter million dollar contract on his head. Another cartel is trying to recruit him.

He speaks as a free man and of his own free will - there are no charges against him. He is a lonely voice - no one with his background has ever come forward and talked. He is the future - there are thousands of men like him in Mexico and there will be more in other places. He is the truth no one wants to hear."

By: Charles Bowden, Molly Molloy
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9781864713107
ISBN 10: 1864713100
Publication Date: 01 June 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles Bowden (born 1945) is an American non-fiction author, journalist, and essayist based in Tucson, Arizona. He is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes about the American Southwest. He is a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazine, and writes for other periodicals including Harper's Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and Aperture. He is the winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. Molly Molloy is the Latin American and Border Studies librarian at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Her articles and translations have appeared in Anthropology and Humanism, Narco News Bulletin, Puerto del Sol, Paddlefish, In These Times and The Nation Online. She created and manages the FRONTERA-LIST to distribute news, statistics and analysis on Ciudad Ju rez and the border region.

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El Sicario

Confessions of a Cartel Hitman

Charles Bowden, Molly Molloy

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