Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields (repost)
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields By Charles Bowden
Publisher: Na..tio.n Bo..oks 2011 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 1568586450 | EPUB | 3 MB
Publisher: Na..tio.n Bo..oks 2011 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 1568586450 | EPUB | 3 MB
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.
InMurder 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.