On May 14, 2003, a familiar risk-filled journey, taken by hopeful Mexican immigrants attempting to illegally cross into the United States, took a tragic turn. Inside a sweltering truck abandoned in Texas, authorities found at least 74 people packed into a "human heap of desperation." After months of investigation, a 25-year-old Honduran-born woman named Karla Chavez was found responsible for leading the human trafficking cell that led to this grisly tragedy in which 19 people died.
Through interviews with survivors who had the courage to share their stories and conversations with the victims' families, and in examining the political implications of the incident for both U.S. and Mexican immigration policies, Jorge Ramos tells the story of one of the most heartbreaking episodes of our nation's turbulent history of immigration.

DYING TO CROSS

History

Jorge Ramos

Americas

HarperCollins, Publishers

Immigrants in America are at the heart of what makes this country the most prosperous and visionary in the world. The optimism that goes along with this sentiment was at its peak until recently, when tragedy struck at the World Trade Center. Once again, the foreign-born in America have become objects of suspicion, and instead of adopting laws that would extend our borders to them our country has suddenly swung its gates shut. But do we really know who makes up the bulk of immigrants in America? Jorge Ramos does.
Writing from his own heartfelt perspective as an immigrant, forge Ramos, one of the world's most popular Spanish-language television news broadcasters, listens to and explores stories of dozens of immigrants who decided to change their lives and risk everything -- families, jobs history, and their own culture -- in order to pursue a better, freer, and opportunity-filled future as citizens of the United Starts.
By telling the personal stories of the immigrants' journey to America and their subsequent effects on American culture, Ramos advances the notion that immigrants have created a country within a country. and ultimately are the soul of America's continued good fortune.
With the clear tone of a seasoned journalist; Ramos brings to life the tales of individuals from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, among other countries, and explains why they first immigrated (war, poverty, exile, and so on), what their dreams are, how they deal with racism, and what they believe the future hill hold for them and for their children.
Not since the early twentieth century has immigration been such a transformative force in America. Immigrants from Europe who flooded into the United States helped shape what many refer to as the "American" century and ultimately transformed the world. America's second wave of immigration is now a reality, and like the previous one this wave will again transform American society, and the world forever.
From the recent Vieques controversy to the interesting notion that Spanglish has become a uniquely American phenomenon to the blossoming creativity of Latino communities in places -here ten years ago there were none, Ramos shows that there is a new face in America, one whose colors and countries of origin are as diverse as the country it has adopted as home.

The Other Face of America: Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future

Rayo / HarperCollins

A Criticas Bestseller
 From the many wars he has covered and the places he has seen to the world leaders he has interviewed, Jorge Ramos draws readers in with the powerful story of a man whose search and ambition for a career in journalism have led him to the country he would love to call home, but cannot.

Atravesando Fronteras: La Autobiografia de un Periodista en Busca de su Lugar en el Mundo (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Thorndike Press

Una de las primeras cosas que nos piden a los periodistas es que seamos objetivos. Me parece bien. De lo que se trata es que sea la realidad_y no nuestras opiniones_las queque predominen en nuestro trabajo periodistico...

Detras de la Mascara, Lo que vi,A la Caza Leon

Mosaico

Detrás de la mascara (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Grijalbo

The Mexican journalist who has been a foreign correspondent for the Univisiâon television network recounts his experiences visiting camps for refugees from Kosovo, interviewing world leaders, and covering news throughout the world.

LO QUE VI (Spanish Edition)

Debolsillo]

The Other Face of America

Politics & Social Sciences

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Tierra de todos: Nuestro momento para crear una nación de iguales

Administrative Law

Vintage Espanol

Detras De LA Mascara

Grijalbo Mondadori

Spanish translation of The Gift of Time by Jorge Ramos

El Regalo Del Tiempo (Spanish Edition)

Self-Help

FonoLibro

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