"Mapping the similarities between fictional and non-fictional violence within Don Winslow's "The Cartel" and the real life "War on Drugs" (Map created by student 93244 & student 73491)
by nikita mccoubrey
1. P198 of "The Cartel" - "As the revelers dive to the floor, two of Chuy's men open a black plastic bag and dump out its contents. Five human heads roll across the black and white tiled floor."
2. P522 of "The Cartel" - "Keller has seen the videotapes of two pickup trucks pulling up to a Pemex station and filling plastic barrels full of gasoline...the other Zetas toll the barrels into the Casino and set them on fire. The emergency exits were padlocked and chained. Fifty three people died of flame, smoke and toxins."
3. P301 of "The Cartel" the "Feminicidio" - "The disappearances and murders of hundreds of young women. Three hundred and ninety, to be exact."
4. P519 of "The Cartel" - "The bodies of fourteen Zetas, skinned, lie in the backs of garbage trucks."
5. P520 of "The Cartel" - "This isn't Barrera's first venture into 'bodies as public relations'. A few months earlier, masked gunmen blocked traffic on a major intersection in the Boca del Rio section of Veracruz and dumped thirty-five naked and dismembered corpses, twelve of them women..."
6. P521 of "The Cartel" - "Bodies from both sides piled up, almost literally, in Durango. Eleven here, eight there, then sixty-eight in a mass grave..."
7. P391 - "Pablo's next call is to a headless body hanging from its feet off the Bridge of Dreams..."
8. P503 of "The Cartel" - "Her stomach had been sliced open and a large "Z" carved into her chest and stomach."
9. P586 of "The Cartel" - "They grabbed children by the ankles and swung their heads into tree trunks and walls... They ripped babies from pregnant women's stomachs and then... raped the rest of the women before killing them and dumping their bodies."
10. P586 of "The Cartel" - "The Guatemalan 'civil war' went on for fourteen more years after the massacre of Dos Erres. Over two hundred thousand people were killed, including forty to fifty thousand who disappeared."
11. P197 of "The Cartel" - "The four men grab her, strip the dress from her and pin her onto one of the tables..."
12. "An official said 20 men entered the bar in Uruapan city, Michoacan state, fired into the air, forced revellers to lie down and then "threw down five heads". URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5322160.stm
13. "Hundreds of women disappear in Ciudad Juárez each year." URL : Hundreds of women disappear in Ciudad Juárez each year. A smartphone app could help.
14. " Mexican state where 900 women have vanished or been murdered in a year"
15. Horror as nine bodies found hanged from bridge and 14 heads decapitated and dumped along U.S. border in Mexico
16. 52 killed in attack at Mexican casino
17. Mexican authorities find 49 mutilated bodies dumped on northern highway
18. Mexico's 'most sadistic' drug kingpin's reign ends without a shot fired
19. Nine human heads and 32 bodies have been found in a Mexican cartel mass grave
20. My seven years as a sex slave in Mexican drug cartels | VICE News
21. "I won't do a rape scene. I'll refer to it, but I can't write it. I can't do it." How to Write a Novel About the Bloody War on Drugs
22. Violence against women 'pandemic' in Mexico
23. Profile: the brutal cartel boss who took sadistic killing to new levels
24. 3 Bodies With Skinned Faces Found in Mexico
25. Fat, skin and bones could be all that's left of victims of drug cartel's 'stew-maker'
26. Guatemala's bloody battle with Mexican drug cartels
