01901cam a2200313 a 4500 16084343 20141010102218.0 100204s2010 nyuaf 000 0 eng 2010001716 9781568584492 (alk. paper) 1568584490 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn435418539 DLC DLC YDX OJ4 CDX YDXCP VP@ EEK DLC n-mx--- HV5840.M42 C5826 2010 364.152/3097216 22 Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014. 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. Drug traffic Mexico Ciudad Juárez. Narco-terrorism Mexico Ciudad Juárez. Murder Mexico Ciudad Juárez. Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Social conditions. Cardona, Julián, 1960- lcc BK 25073 25073 0 0 lcc 0 0 PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-10 Books for Africa 0 HV5840.M42 C5826 2010 2014-3617 2014-10-10 00:00:00 1 2014-10-10 BK