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Los Zetas represent a new generation of ruthless, sadistic
pragmatists in Mexico and Central America who are impelling a
tectonic shift among drug trafficking organizations in the
Americas. Mexico's marines have taken down the cartel's top
leaders; nevertheless, these capos and their desperados have
forever altered how criminal business is conducted in the Western
Hemisphere. This narrative brings an unprecedented level of detail
in describing how Los Zetas became Mexico's most diabolical
criminal organization before suffering severe losses.
In their heyday, Los Zetas controlled networks of American
police, politicians, judges, and businessmen. The Mexican
government is losing its "war on drugs," despite the military,
technical, and intelligence resources provided by its northern
neighbor. Subcontracted street gangs operate in hundreds of US
cities, purchasing weapons, delivering product, executing targeted
foes, and bribing the US Border Patrol. Despite crippling losses
Los Zetas still dominate Nuevo Laredo, the major portal for legal
and illegal bilateral commerce. They also work hand-in-glove with
the underworld in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, as well as
with gangs like the Maras Salvatruchas.
A new generation of ruthless pragmatists carves a parallel state
across Mexico and Central America. Most powerful among them is Los
Zetas, ruled over by Heriberto Lazcano, known as The Executioner.
Lazcano and his men have forced a tectonic shift among drug
trafficking organizations in the Americas, forever altering how
criminal business is conducted in the Western Hemisphere. This
narrative brings an unprecedented level of detail in describing how
Los Zetas became Mexico's most diabolical criminal
organization.
Criminals control networks of police, politician, and
businessmen spanning the American continent. The Mexican government
is losing its "war on drugs," despite the military, technical, and
intelligence resources provided by its northern neighbor.
Subcontracted street gangs operate in hundreds of US cities,
purchasing weapons, delivering product, executing targeted foes,
and bribing the US Border Patrol.
Despite suffering severe losses that would cripple any major
corporation, Los Zetas continues to operate internationally in
criminal markets. Many of the poor and destitute across the region
cooperate with Los Zetas, sometimes for money, often because of
coercion.
John C. Calhoun was a major actor in the political history of
nineteenth-century America. His dramatic career will always be of
interest. However, Calhoun is equally important as a political
thinker who continues to elicit widespread interest from the most
diverse points of the ideological spectrum. "The Essential Calhoun"
presents a full-fledged selection of speeches and writings taken
from the entire forty-year span of Calhoun's public career and from
many varieties of occasions, public and private. For the first
time, it is possible to appreciate Calhoun fully and to consider
his thought within the compass of a single volume. Calhoun is known
to posterity as the premier defender of the Old South and slavery
and as the theorist of the concurrent majority. His contemporaries
knew him as much else, including a political economist and foreign
policy authority. As the range of writings shows, he was a valuable
and often prophetic commentator. Calhoun's thought testifies to a
deep and abiding concern with moral and ethical issues that
confront a government resting on the consent of the people. The
fundamental question with which he wrestles in all his works is how
to achieve and maintain a proper balance between power and liberty
in a democratic society. By providing the most representative
compendium of his thought, "The Essential Calhoun" invites the
reader to engage in this exercise of applying the moral imagination
realistically to the public business of America. Historians,
American studies specialists, economists, and political scientists
will find this volume indispensible.
"Generally, the Southern writers allowed into 'mainstream'
publications are either those who have made a career out of
libeling the home folks or those too important to be ignored.
Amazingly and refreshingly, Chronicles has not only treated
Southern subjects abundantly and fairly but has welcomed many
Southern writers who are not among the great but who have something
to say and can say it well." So writes Clyde Wilson in his
Introduction to Garden of the Beaux Arts, the first volume of
Chronicles of the South, a collection of articles from Chronicles:
A Magazine of American Culture.Published in Rockford, Illinois,
Chronicles has nevertheless been home to some of the best writing
on the South over the last quarter of a century. Volume One
features contributions by Southern novelists and poets, including
Donald Davidson, Madison Smartt Bell, Fred Chappell, and Walker
Percy; scholars such as M.E. Bradford, Ward Allen, Russell Kirk,
J.O. Tate, Grady McWhiney, Tom Landess, Mark Royden Winchell, and
Donald Livingston; and politicians and commentators, including U.S.
Rep. John J. Duncan, syndicated columnist William Murchison, and
Chronicles editors Aaron D. Wolf, Clyde Wilson, and Thomas Fleming.
Published in 1981, "Why the South Will Survive" is an intense
self-examination of the South at a critical moment in its history.
All of the contributors take pride in being southerners and regard
their region as a national asset. While agreeing that the South has
changed, they do not agree that it has become more like the rest of
America or that it has lost its essential distinctiveness.
Examining many aspects of the South--religion, manners, family
life, localism, literature, politics, rural life, and
urbanization--these essays acknowledge the power and relevance of
the Agrarian tradition and argue that the South can still provide a
model and touchstone for the nation.
Contributors: Don Anderson, M. E. Bradford, Cleanth Brooks,
Thomas Fleming, Samuel T. Francis, George Garrett, William C.
Havard, Hamilton C. Horton Jr., Thomas H. Landess, Andrew Lytle,
Marion Montgomery, John Shelton Reed, George C. Rogers Jr., David
B. Sentelle, Clyde N. Wilson.
"Generally, the Southern writers allowed into 'mainstream'
publications are either those who have made a career out of
libeling the home folks or those too important to be ignored.
Amazingly and refreshingly, Chronicles has not only treated
Southern subjects abundantly and fairly but has welcomed many
Southern writers who are not among the great but who have something
to say and can say it well." So writes Clyde Wilson in his
Introduction to Garden of the Beaux Arts, the first volume of
Chronicles of the South, a collection of articles from Chronicles:
A Magazine of American Culture. Published in Rockford, Illinois,
Chronicles has nevertheless been home to some of the best writing
on the South over the last quarter of a century. Volume One
features contributions by Southern novelists and poets, including
Donald Davidson, Madison Smartt Bell, Fred Chappell, and Walker
Percy; scholars such as M.E. Bradford, Ward Allen, Russell Kirk,
J.O. Tate, Grady McWhiney, Tom Landess, Mark Royden Winchell, and
Donald Livingston; and politicians and commentators, including U.S.
Rep. John J. Duncan, syndicated columnist William Murchison, and
Chronicles editors Aaron D. Wolf, Clyde Wilson, and Thomas Fleming.
The South won't go away. Not yet. For one reason, there are those
of us who love her still. For another, those old Southern
constitutionalists and Agrarian critics of 'progress' are for many
people beyond Mason-Dixon's Line starting to look less like
disagreeable relics and more like gifted prophets. Thus ends Clyde
Wilson's Introduction to In Justice to so Fine a Country, the
second volume of Chronicles of the South, a collection of articles
from Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Published in
Rockford, Illinois, Chronicles has nevertheless been home to some
of the best writing on the South published over the last quarter of
a century. Volume Two features contributions by scholars and
politicians, men of letters and political analysts, not to mention
the only real live sociologist in captivity who can write well and
has a sense of humor. Some names are familiar-Patrick J. Buchanan,
George Garrett, William Murchison, Thomas Fleming, Clyde Wilson,
John Shelton Reed-and others less so, but all of the contributions
in this remarkable volume are worth savoring.
"The South won't go away. Not yet. For one reason, there are those
of us who love her still. For another, those old Southern
constitutionalists and Agrarian critics of 'progress' are for many
people beyond Mason-Dixon's Line starting to look less like
disagreeable relics and more like gifted prophets." Thus ends Clyde
Wilson's Introduction to In Justice to so Fine a Country, the
second volume of Chronicles of the South, a collection of articles
from Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Published in
Rockford, Illinois, Chronicles has nevertheless been home to some
of the best writing on the South published over the last quarter of
a century. Volume Two features contributions by scholars and
politicians, men of letters and political analysts, not to mention
"the only real live sociologist in captivity who can write well and
has a sense of humor." Some names are familiar-Patrick J. Buchanan,
George Garrett, William Murchison, Thomas Fleming, Clyde Wilson,
John Shelton Reed-and others less so, but all of the contributions
in this remarkable volume are worth savoring.
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