With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows.Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN PromotesVeering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared" leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798 were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's street children. Anabel Hernández and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio González Rodríguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed to oppose it.

The Sorrows of Mexico

History

VILLORO, JUAN

Hernández, Anabel

CACHO, LYDIA

OSORNO, DIEGO ENRIQUE

Parra, Emiliano Ruiz

GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SERGIO

Turati, Marcela

Americas

Quercus Publishing

HOMBRE SIN CABEZA, EL (CRO)

Anagrama

El lugar: Ciudad Juarez, en el estado de Chihuahua, en la frontera de Mexico con Estados Unidos. La historia: una ola de crimenes brutales absolutamente real. Esta cronica periodistica indaga en los barbaros asesinatos en serie cometidos en esa zona y repetidos ano tras anos, incluyendo ninas violadas y torturadas, cuyos cadaveres son arrojados al desierto. Un rastro de sangre que conduce a una trama de complicidades y silencios entre homicidas, policias, autoridades locales, ciudadanos prominentes y el gobierno de la Republica al mas alto nivel. Un libro-denuncia de una realidad escalofriante.

Huesos en el desierto (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Editorial Anagrama

During the night of the September 26th, 2015 in Iguala, Mexico, hundreds of students were victims of police aggression and were attacked by criminals. What came after that it is considered one of the biggest acts of modern brutality. In memory of the 43 missing students who were presumed killed, this book reveals all the factors that led up into this event.

Los 43 de Iguala: México: verdad y reto de los estudiantes desaparecidos (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Campo de guerra analiza la tendencia geopolitica encabezada por Estados Unidos de America que, con el pretexto de combatir al terrorismo en el mundo, ha impuesto el control y la vigilancia a partir de plataformas militares, e impulsado el orden paulatino de grandes corporaciones mundiales, cuya sinergia en el espionaje absoluto ha revelado Edward Snowden. A partir del caso de Mexico, este informe documentado e inquietante explora tal geopolitica que aprovecha la inestabilidad social, los carteles de la droga, la represion del Estado y el paramilitarismo para sentar las bases de un dominio integral. Un atisbo al mundo del manana que comenzo a ser hoy. / Battlefield analyzes the geopolitical strategy led by the United States, which uses the idea of defeating terrorism as an excuse not only to impose a global monitoring and controlling model by creating military bases, but also in order to support the establishment of international corporations that are closely linked to espionage, as was revealed by Edward Snowden.

Campo de guerra (Spanish Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

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