Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Ciudad Juárez 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 or Mogadishu.In Murder City, Charles Bowden has written an extraordinary...
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Ciudad Juárez 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 or Mogadishu.In Murder City, Charles Bowden has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants--a raped beauty queen, a repentant hit man, a journalist fleeing for his life--with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juárez's culture of violence will not only worsen but inevitably spread north.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781568586458 (1568586450)
ASIN: 1568586450
Publish date: March 22nd 2011
Publisher: Nation Books
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Mystery,
Journalism,
Culture,
Politics,
Sociology,
Crime,
True Crime,
Cultural Studies,
Political Science
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