Ciudad Juárez

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1568586450

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Murder City by Charles Bowden Pdf

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. In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who 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 beauty queen who was raped, 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. Heartbreaking, disturbing, and unforgettable, Murder City was written at the height of his powers and established Bowden as one of America's leading journalists.

Author : Oscar J. Martínez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816537228

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Ciudad Juárez by Oscar J. Martínez Pdf

The seminal history of the iconic Mexican border city by the founder of border studies--Provided by publisher.

Author : Kathleen Staudt,Zulma Y. Méndez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292768284

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Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez by Kathleen Staudt,Zulma Y. Méndez Pdf

Ciudad Juárez has recently become infamous for its murder rate, which topped 3,000 in 2010 as competing drug cartels grew increasingly violent and the military responded with violence as well. Despite the atmosphere of intimidation by troops, police, and organized criminals, women have led the way in civil society activism, spurring the Juárez Resistance and forging powerful alliances with anti-militarization activists. An in-depth examination of la Resistencia Juarense, Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez draws on ethnographic research to analyze the resistance’s focus on violence against women, as well as its clash with the war against drugs championed by Mexican President Felipe Calderón with the support of the United States. Through grounded insights, the authors trace the transformation of hidden discourses into public discourses that openly challenge the militarized border regimes. The authors also explore the advocacy carried on by social media, faith-based organizations, and peace-and-justice activist Javier Sicilia while Calderón faced U.S. political schisms over the role of border trade in this global manufacturing site. Bringing to light on-the-ground strategies as well as current theories from the fields of sociology, political anthropology, and human rights, this illuminating study is particularly significant because of its emphasis on the role of women in local and transnational attempts to extinguish a hot zone. As they overcome intimidation to become game-changing activists, the figures featured in Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez offer the possibility of peace and justice in the wake of seemingly irreconcilable conflict.

Author : Gay Young,Robert H Schmidt,Oscar J Martinez,Kathleen A Staudt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000305517

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The Social Ecology And Economic Development Of Ciudad Juarez by Gay Young,Robert H Schmidt,Oscar J Martinez,Kathleen A Staudt Pdf

As the issue of immigration between Mexico and the United States becomes more critical, it is increasingly important that we understand the process of development in Mexico's northern border region. This collection of essays offers an empirical analysis of development in Ciudad Juárez, with an emphasis on the social and spatial contexts in which economic relations occur. The analyses are framed by a general discussion of urbanization, migration, and industrialization, considered in light of the history of Mexico's northern frontier. Contributors recount the city's pattern of urban growth in response to the natural environment and the changing national culture and examine current patterns of land use, especially as compared to similar development in other Latin American cities. Other issues considered are the impact on household activities of the structure of women's participation in the maquiladora work force; the city's use of its human resources, especially in off-shore assembly activities; and the foreign orientation of the Juárez economy.

Author : Francis Morgan
Publisher : Soffer Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vacation Goose Travel Guide Ciudad Juarez Mexico by Francis Morgan Pdf

Vacation Goose Travel Guide Ciudad Juarez Mexico is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Top 16 city attractions, top 1 nightlife adventures, top 50 city restaurants, top 5 shopping centers, top 34 hotels, and more than a dozen monthly weather statistics. This travel guide is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this pocket book be part of yet another fun Ciudad Juarez adventure :)

Author : Farjeon Clanash Farjeon
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426928239

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The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez by Farjeon Clanash Farjeon Pdf

"The First World and the Third World are the bread in this sandwich and we are the baloney!" So a character describes the sprawling industrial war zone on the U.S.-Mexico border that is Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the drug trade, where the Third World comes to make what the First World wants. Hundreds of innocent young women have been abducted, raped, and murdered here, yet the mystery of "las desaparecidas" remains tragically unsolved. Into this smoldering devil's stew steps an eccentric English journalist, the sometime employee of an occult magazine in London that attempts "the rational examination of all irrational phenomena," on his way from Miami to Los Angeles by bus. One morning at dawn he wades absent-mindedly across the shallow trickle of the Rio Grande into Juarez while filming an enormous white Siberian tiger. He gets caught up in the madness of a very strange family and is lucky to escape with his life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428902473

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Emissions and prevention/control techniques for automobile body shops in Ciudad Juárez, México by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julián Cardona
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477324073

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Abecedario de Juárez by Julián Cardona Pdf

Juárez, Mexico, is known for violence. It began with the femicides of the 1990s, then continued with the cartel-related mayhem that made it one of the world’s most dangerous cities from 2006 to 2012. Along with the violence came a new lexicon that traveled from person to person, across rivers and borders—wherever it was needed to explain the horrors taking place. From personal interviews, media accounts, and conversations on the street, Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs have collected the words and slang that make up the brutal language of Juárez, creating a glossary that serves as a linguistic portrait of the city and its violence. Organized alphabetically, the entries consist of Spanish and Spanglish, accompanied by short English definitions. Some also feature a longer narrative drawn from interviews—stories that put the terms in context and provide a personal counterpoint to media reports of the same events. Letters, and many of the entries, are supplemented with Briggs’s evocative illustrations, which are reminiscent of Hans Holbein’s famous Alphabet of Death. Together, the words, drawings, and descriptions in ABCedario de Juárez both document and interpret the everyday violence of this vital border city.

Author : Stella Pope Duarte
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816526672

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If I Die in Ju‡rez by Stella Pope Duarte Pdf

Duarte's latest novel is based on a string of real-life murders in Ciudad Jurez in the 1990s. Forced out of the house by her alcoholic mother, 13-year-old Evita takes to the streets, glimpsing newspaper columns about the murders, while struggling to survive. Petra, Evita's comely 19-year-old cousin, exchanges the country life for gritty Jurez to raise money for her ailing father. An acquaintance of Petra, Mayela, a 12-year-old Tarahumara Indian, lives in an orphanage where her artistic talent is discovered.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466804821

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2666 by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Author : Howard Campbell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477323915

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Downtown Juárez by Howard Campbell Pdf

At least 200,000 people have died in Mexico’s so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn’t believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland economy are all factors. But none of these reasons explain how violence in downtown Juárez has become heartbreakingly “normal.” A rigorous yet moving account, Downtown Juárez is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things. Even as Juárez’s elite northeast section thrives on the profits of multinational corporations, and law-abiding citizens across the city mobilize against crime and official malfeasance, downtown’s cantinas, barrios, and brothels are tyrannized by misery. Campbell’s is a chilling perspective, suggesting that, over time, violent acts feed off each other, losing their connection to any specific cause. Downtown Juárez documents this banality of evil—and confronts it—with the stories of those most affected.

Author : Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452954653

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Juárez Girls Rising by Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon Pdf

Working-class girls in Ciudad Juárez grow up in a context marked by violence against women, the devastating effects of drug cartel wars, unresponsive and abusive authorities, and predatory U.S. capitalism: under constantly precarious conditions, these girls are often struggling to shape their lives and realize their aspirations. Juárez native Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon explores the vital role that transformative secondary education can play in promoting self-empowerment and a spirit of resistance to the violence and social injustice these girls encounter. Bringing together the voices of ten female students at Preparatoria Altavista, an innovative urban high school founded in 1968 on social justice principles, Cervantes-Soon offers a nuanced analysis of how students and their teachers together enact a transformative educational philosophy that promotes learning, self-authorship, and hope. Altavista’s curriculum is guided by the concept of autogestión, a holistic and dialectical approach to individual and collective identity formation rooted in the students’ experiences and a critical understanding of their social realities. Through its sensitive ethnography, this book shows how female students actively construct their own meaning of autogestión by making choices that they consider liberating and empowering. Juárez Girls Rising provides an alternative narrative to popular and often simplistic, sensationalizing, and stigmatizing discourses about those living in this urban borderland. By merging the story of Preparatoria Altavista with the voices of its students, this singular book provides a window into the possibilities and complexities of coming of age during a dystopic era in which youth hold on to their critical hope and cultivate their wisdom even as the options for the future appear to crumble before their eyes.

Author : Ricardo C. Ainslie
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780292748712

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The Fight to Save Juárez by Ricardo C. Ainslie Pdf

“A deeply reported, razor smart, up-close account of the Great Drug War . . . Absolutely courageous in its fairness and search for answers.” —William Booth, Washington Post Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly twenty percent of the country’s drug-related executions have taken place in the city, a city that can be as unforgiving as the hardest places on earth. It is here that the Mexican government came to turn the tide. Whatever happens in Juárez will have lasting repercussions for both Mexico and the United States. Ricardo Ainslie went to Juárez to try to understand what was taking place behind the headlines of cartel executions and other acts of horrific brutality. In The Fight to Save Juárez, he takes us into the heart of Mexico’s bloodiest city through the lives of four people who experienced the drug war from very different perspectives—Mayor José Reyes Ferriz, a mid-level cartel player’s mistress, a human rights activist, and a photojournalist. Ainslie also interviewed top Mexican government strategists, including members of Calderón’s security cabinet, as well as individuals within US law enforcement. The dual perspective of life on the ground in the drug war and the “big picture” views of officials who are responsible for the war’s strategy, creates a powerful, intimate portrait of an embattled city, its people, and the efforts to rescue Juárez from the abyss.

Author : Friedrich Katz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804730466

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The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz Pdf

Based on archival research, this study of Pancho Villa aims to separate myth from history. It looks at Villa's early life as an outlaw and his emergence as a national leader, and at the special considerations that transformed the state of Chihuahua into a leading centre of revolution.

Author : Nancy Pineda-Madrid
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800698478

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Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juárez by Nancy Pineda-Madrid Pdf

Nancy Pineda-Madrid re-conceives traditional Christian notions of salvation by closing attending to the experience of the embattled women of Ciudad Ju rez in Mexico, where hundreds have been slain and where survivors have found healing and salvation in solidarity and community practices that resist rather than acquiesce in the violence.