Murder city : Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields
Bowden, Charles, 1945-
Murder city : Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields / Charles Bowden ; photographs by Julián Cardona - New York : Nation Books , c2010. - xiv, 320 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north.
9781568584492
2010001716
Drug Traffic---Mexican-American border regions
Murder----Fiction
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)----Social conditions
HV5840.M42 / C5826 2010
LAS 364 BOW
Murder city : Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields / Charles Bowden ; photographs by Julián Cardona - New York : Nation Books , c2010. - xiv, 320 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north.
9781568584492
2010001716
Drug Traffic---Mexican-American border regions
Murder----Fiction
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)----Social conditions
HV5840.M42 / C5826 2010
LAS 364 BOW
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