Their is probably no other better book about Mexican drug trafficking during the PRI government ruled era in Mexico, than Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin by Terrance Poppa. On this book the author Terrance Poppa, describes the life and eventually death of Mexican American drug lord Pablo Acosta Villarreal. Although Acosta was born in Mexico, he was also an American citizen because of his father being born in the United States. Knowing both sides of the border, helped him on eventually becoming the top drug boss in Ojinaga, Chihuahua corridor. Pablo Acosta, described to the author how he would go about smuggling narcotics, but more importantly he describe the level corruption within the Mexican government, were essentially drug organizations function as an unofficial branch of the government. The interesting part of the book is the epilogue, in reading the epilogue of the post events after Acosta’s death, you’ll come to realize that the real capos in Mexico is the government itself. This book is definitely worth the reading, if anything it would’ve been awesome if a second part of this book this was written, describing the short-long effect of Acosta’s death, were his organization essentially became part of the Juarez cartel and Amado Carrillo Fuentes becoming Pablo Acosta’s successor, himself with also help of the Mexican government, becoming the most powerful drug lord of his era.