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El crimen organizado se convirtió en instrumento disuasivo de la movilización social. Hoy, en México, hay 916 batallas por el agua. Gobierno, empresas y delincuentes se han movilizado contra las poblaciones y los activistas en busca de su bien más preciado. Ya hay miles y miles de víctimas, y el cambio climático las multiplicará. En esta investigación periodística vienen los nombres y apellidos de los responsables, las redes de corrupción y los modus operandi. pero el desastre aún puede frenarse.

Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay. But Earle maintained that the biggest case of his career was the one involving Frank Hughey Smith, the ex-convict millionaire, alleged criminal mastermind, and Dixie Mafia figure. With the help of corrupt local authorities, Smith spent the 1970s building a criminal empire in auto salvage and bail bonds.

The Diaries of a Doorman Volume 3 - Bouncing in the Sun is set in the Canary Islands back in the 1990s where Stu worked and lived in the murky world of Doormen. This was a time and a place where the line between bouncer and villain was often blurred.

Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays.... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female equivalents? Where are the street robbers, gang leaders, diamond thieves, gold smugglers and bank robbers? Queens of the Underworld reveals the incredible story of female crooks from the 17th century to the present.

Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood. The crew's origins predate Prohibition, when Chicago Heights was a developing manufacturing center with a large Italian immigrant population. Its earliest bosses struggled for control until a violent gang war left the crew solidified under the auspices of Al Capone. For the first time, the history of the Chicago Heights street crew is traced from its inception through its last known boss.

Koh Tao, a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, surrounded by pristine beaches, swathed in sunshine, and a mecca for tourists, divers, and backpackers. But “Turtle Island” has its dark side. In 2014, Koh Tao was the site of the brutal double murders of two British backpackers, but theirs weren’t the only suspicious backpacker deaths.

Danielle has a safe, happy childhood growing up in West London, but her bright future fades as she turns her back on school for gang life and crime. Betrayed by the police after a brutal gang rape, she finds protection under the wing of organised criminals and falls in love with the local ‘top boy’. However, her allegiances bring terror to her doorstep when gun-toting rivals target her flat – and the authorities answer by taking away her baby. Heartbroken, Danielle spirals deeper into gang life and becomes a key player in a sprawling county lines operation.

"Fariña" és un relat interessant que narra, a través de testimonis directes, el narcotràfic a Galicia des del principi del contraban fins a l’actualitat. Del contraban de tabac es va passar al de cocaïna. La manca de legislació, impunitat, permissivitat, l’acceptació social i el desconeixement del gran problema que allà es gestava va ajudar a crear una organització que va ser la responsable de què el 80 % de la cocaïna arribés a Europa per les costes gallegues.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in the UK for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker.

En novemberdag i 2000 gennemfører pengetransportchaufføren Andrew Johannisson det største pengerøveri i Danmark nogensinde. Han lænker sin kollega til rattet og stikker af med 42 millioner kr. i en varevogn. Dagen efter røveriet anholder politet Andrew Johannison, og de går ud fra, at sagen er opklaret. Men det er den langt fra. Andrew har nemlig ikke været alene om røveriet, pengene er forsvundet, og en af Andrew Johannissons bekendte bliver taget som gidsel. Efterhånden får politiet trevlet netværket op i en sag, som fører dem helt til Thailand.

A church's lies, harassment, abuse, and deceit. A must-listen true story of a girl who took a courageous stand against an empire. This is a true story of a second-generation Scientologist, born into the lifestyle and strict structure of this church, and the extreme harassment and abuse that followed the escape from this so-called religion. Many in this day and age have heard of the Church of Scientology, but are unaware of the true scope of its reach, and the depth of its grip in our society’s structure.

Peter Jaarveld is geobsedeerd door Tinus, een vriendin van zijn overleden vrouw. Hij is er zeker van dat ze in gevaar is, zit haar voortdurend op de hielen en krijgt ten slotte een straatverbod opgelegd. Dan wordt Tinus overvallen en in een coma geslagen. Peter wordt verdacht en ontslagen door zijn werkgever, een Amsterdams architectenbureau.

For as long as it has gripped our imaginations, the Mafia has been tied to an ingrained image of masculinity. We learn about "made men," "wiseguys," and "goodfellas" leading criminal organizations whose culture prizes machismo, with women as ancillary and often-powerless characters: trivialized mistresses and long-suffering mob wives. The reality is far more complex.

In 1997 a six-year-old boy questioned by authorities relayed disturbing stories of abuse. The more he talked, the more people were implicated in his shocking revelations. And he was only the first child to come forward. Within a year, fifteen more children with similar tales were transferred out of the Bassa region of Italy to protected locations. Their parents were accused of belonging to a satanic sect that performed sex rituals under the aegis of beloved local priest Don Giorgio Govoni. With each child’s confession, the network of monsters grew.

In 2011 a group of fishermen living on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, were convicted for one of the largest, most audacious drug-smuggling plots in British history. They were accused of scooping up £53mill ($69 mill) worth of pure cocaine in the dead of night from the middle of the English Channel.

Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good, and the work was easy - or so he thought. He had to sail to South America to collect one of the biggest shipments of cocaine ever bound for the UK. Refusal was not an option. There followed a harrowing journey to Venezuela, where almost £50 million of coke was waiting. But someone had tipped off the authorities. Donald and his fellow crewman were arrested, convicted of drug smuggling, and sentenced to six years in the notorious island prison of San Antonio.

Gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over a century. In its heyday, the city's Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The White slave trade was rampant, and along with all the vice crimes, murders became a weekly occurrence. This revealing history chronicles the rise of Steubenville's prodigious underworld from the 1890s to the modern day.

Della Mala del Brenta tutti conoscono il boss indiscusso Felice Maniero, la sua sfrontatezza, le rapine e le fughe rocambolesche. Meno si parla del potere feroce imposto nel Veneto per vent'anni. In questo libro Arianna Zottarel spiega le origini e l'evoluzione di un'organizzazione criminale speciale usando fonti orali, atti giudiziari e decenni di articoli di stampa: dalle rapine miliardarie al controllo delle bische, dal traffico di droga alle armi. E poi ancora i sequestri di persona, gli omicidi e i legami con le altre mafie.

Una storia di ribellione e coraggio. Accade a Milano: protagonista Lea Garofalo, sequestrata, uccisa e ridotta in cenere dai suoi familiari nel 2009 per aver rotto con una cultura criminale di violenza omertosa. Con lei la figlia, Denise Cosco, che ottiene giustizia ma è costretta a vivere, ventenne, sotto protezione dopo aver denunciato suo padre Carlo, gli zii, il fidanzato e altri due imputati.

No es una pandilla, no es una célula de un grupo mayor ni tampoco una banda doméstica, sino un auténtico cártel que logró apoderarse del centro del país, justo en las narices de las más altas autoridades. ¿Cómo lo hizo? Ejerciendo una violencia como nunca se había visto, con el liderazgo de un hombre del que poco o nada se sabía, con una red de lavado poderosísima y la apatía de dos administraciones capitalinas.