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 …
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 …
Describes and analyzes people's experience with violence in several areas of Mexico, focusing on ways common citizens were affected by and responded to drug-related violence during Calderón administration (2006-2012). Uses discourse analysis to identify instances of "social murm…
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture…
"Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subcultur…
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture…
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture…
"Esta aproximación a las implicaciones políticas de la guerra contra el narcotráfico sugiere una historia más compleja que la de una simple disputa del estado contra violentas organizaciones criminales con alta capacidad de corrupción. Es en realidad la historia, por un lado, de…
The story goes back to January 2011, when one of Vicente Zambada Niebla's lawyers, better known as Vicentillo, who faced a trial in a Chicago court contacted her. The intention was to share with the journalist documents and facts that extended and clarified several of the episod…
"This book provides an important and eloquent analysis of how cultural productions related to the War on Drugs reveal the ways the victimization of migrants in transit, journalists, and the relatives of disappeared ultimately give rise to crucial modes of politics and resistance…
