"The drug lords is a gritty chronicle of the shocking complicity of high political circles, police, military and business with organized crime. Anabel Hernández had access not only to extensive documentation, unpublished until today, but direct evidence of authorities and experts in the field, as well as people involved with major Mexican drug cartels. This has allowed us to examine carefully the origin of the bloody struggle for power among criminal...

The author recounts how he, his wife, and their six-month-old daughter were diagnosed with HIV, the eventual death from AIDS of his wife, and his own and his daughter's so far successful struggles against the infection.