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Murder City: Ciudad Juárez And The Global Economy's New Killing Fields (2010)

by Charles Bowden(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1568584490 (ISBN13: 9781568584492)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Nation Books

review 1: Harsh insight into the killing culture of post-NAFTA Mexico. Not all the claims are backed up as to the causes - closure of the factories and loss of jobs that free trade created, the war-on-drugs migrating trafficking from Columbia, rampant police and political corruption - but in such an environment the facts are uncheckable as those that try wind up dead. A cold dose of reality in which young women lured by narco wealth are perhaps the greatest victims.
review 2: Bowden takes the reader into Juarez and renders the depravity, the violence and the odd humanity of the sicarios--the assassins in a method that is emotionally devastating. "'We are not monsters,'" an assassin explains. "'We have education, we have feelings. I would leave torturing someone, go hom... moree, and have dinner with my family, and then return. You shut off parts of your mind. It is a kind of work, you follow orders.'" The city's residents are so completely unable to protect themselves and their families it is amazing that life goes on in this desolate city.Bowden's conclusion tracks with the biblical concept of evil. One of the few uncorrupted men in the city is El Pastor, who directs Bowden to Ephesians 6:10-13, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."In a city where nothing makes sense, this is the only place Bowden can find resonance, and he this is where he leaves his reader. less

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