Host Per Fagereng speaks with Charles Bowden, the critically acclaimed author of many books including Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family, A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior, Blood Orchid, and Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future. He is a contributing writer for Mother Jones, and his work frequently appears Harper's magazine, GQ, the New York Times Book Review, Aperture, and many others.
Ciudad Juárez 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 or Mogadishu.
In Murder City, Charles Bowden writes about what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants--a raped beauty queen, a repentant hit man, a journalist fleeing for his life--with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juárez's culture of violence will not only worsen but inevitably spread north.
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Murder City Show
<p>I am looking forward to this show...while living in Oklahoma, I heard alot about the crime in El Paso, and how folks went missing down there alot...especially women.</p>
El Sicario, Room 164- Completo
<p>El Sicario, Room 164- Completo</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GorrFtlSaD4</p>
<p>Spanish language; no subtitles.</p>
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<p>The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The title translated is "The hitman, Room 164", It was filmed by Italian director Gianfranco Rosi entirely in Spanish, and written by Rosi and Charles Bowden. It is based on the book, <em><a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/34985/biblio/9780099559955?p_ti">El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man</a></em>. edited by Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden</p>
<p>Context by VJ, Web Coord</p>
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