Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields Bowden, Charles 1945-2014 creator Cardona, Julián 1960- text nyu New York Nation Books c2010 2010 monographic eng

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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. Charles Bowden ; photographs by Julián Cardona. n-mx--- Drug traffic Mexico Ciudad Juárez Narco-terrorism Mexico Ciudad Juárez Murder Mexico Ciudad Juárez Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Social conditions HV5840.M42 C5826 2010 364.152/3097216 9781568584492 (alk. paper) 1568584490 (alk. paper) 2010001716 DLC 100204 20141010102218.0 16084343