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020			_a9781568584492
050	0	0	_aHV5840.M42 _bC5826 2010
082	0	0	_aLAS 364 BOW
100	1		_aBowden, Charles, 1945-
245	1	0	_aMurder city _b: Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields _c/ Charles Bowden ; photographs by Julián Cardona
260			_aNew York _b: Nation Books _c, c2010.
300			_axiv, 320 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aCiudad 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.
650		4	_aDrug Traffic _z-Mexican-American border regions
650			_aMurder _v--Fiction
651		0	_aCiudad Juarez (Mexico) _x--Social conditions
700	1		_aCardona, Julian
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