Explosive book exposes the Mexican killing fields that claimed the lives of hundreds of women at the Juarez, Mexico border. The author's dangerous investigation reveals high-level corruption, a drug cartel run amok and more. Hollywood took note and produced a movie starring Jennifer Lopez and Antonio Banderas. Amnesty International, the United Nations and the U.S. State Department want the Mexican government to put an end to the murders and disappearances that have spread to other places. Exclusive material, including FBI interviews, puts this book at the frontlines of the issue. Author is the expert on the ghastly border crimes. It is the first nonfiction book in English about the murders that attracted international attention.
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56 of 62 people found the following review helpful
By Aaron
Format:Paperback
The information in this book blew me away! As an Amnesty International activist I have known about the hundreds of unsolved murders in Jaurez for a few years now and I have been under the impression that no one knew what was behind the femicides. This book makes it perfectly clear that powerful people on both sides of the border know what's going on and that many of those power brokers south of the border are directly responsible!
This book is especially commendable because of the attention and honor it pays to the families of the victims and the toll all of the trauma has taken on citizens of the border region.
A simplified version of this book's explanation of the Juaurez femicides is that the Columbian drug cartel forged an agreement with some of the most powerful people in Mexico that in exchange for money the Mexicans would grant the cartel and its allies total impunity in the state of Chihuahua. This grim agreement gave the power to kill kidnap, and torture to a mix of sadists, misogynists, serial killers and multi-millionaires.
The cartel recruited many of its operatives from the Mexican army when the Cold War ended which brings up another important point in this book... these operatives were trained to kidnap, torture, and kill leftists and other political dissidents and had no use for these awful skills when the Cold War ended (and with it Mexico's "Dirty War" against political dissidents). This made them ripe for recruitment by the cartels for whom they applied all of the same twisted techniques of their trade (like throwing people out of airplanes!)
The book also notes that the government was easily corrupted by the cartel largely because Mexico's political and justice institutions were so badly weakened by three decades of the Dirty War.... Read more ›
This book is especially commendable because of the attention and honor it pays to the families of the victims and the toll all of the trauma has taken on citizens of the border region.
A simplified version of this book's explanation of the Juaurez femicides is that the Columbian drug cartel forged an agreement with some of the most powerful people in Mexico that in exchange for money the Mexicans would grant the cartel and its allies total impunity in the state of Chihuahua. This grim agreement gave the power to kill kidnap, and torture to a mix of sadists, misogynists, serial killers and multi-millionaires.
The cartel recruited many of its operatives from the Mexican army when the Cold War ended which brings up another important point in this book... these operatives were trained to kidnap, torture, and kill leftists and other political dissidents and had no use for these awful skills when the Cold War ended (and with it Mexico's "Dirty War" against political dissidents). This made them ripe for recruitment by the cartels for whom they applied all of the same twisted techniques of their trade (like throwing people out of airplanes!)
The book also notes that the government was easily corrupted by the cartel largely because Mexico's political and justice institutions were so badly weakened by three decades of the Dirty War.... Read more ›
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Martha
Format:Paperback
I just read the book, I could not put it down. I read it in 3 days and am astonished over the horrible ways of the Mexican Government and the Cartel. I understand now. You must read this book, it answers alot of questions and yet you end up bewildered with more questions unanswered. It made me cry, I cried for the young women killed, how they were killed. I cried for the Mothers and Fathers who will never see their daughters. I hurt for the poor who live there and have no means to protect themselves. I live in El Paso, and we just had 7 bullets hit out City Hall from Juarez Mexico. Juarez is the Devils Den.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Eric Winter
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You may not be able to finish this book - it is about as distressing as things get, even without any detailed descriptions of the murders.
As with all expose books, the author and the reader want to find a solution to the problem(s) raised. But with this book the problem seems to be that Mexico - in spite of its wonderful, warm, long-suffering people, is simply one of the worst places to be on planet Earth.
The author describes stunning levels of police/drug lord/government cruelty, corruption, incompetence and indifference. And unless you can take reading about horrific, probably unsolvable problems, you might want to skip this one.
As with all expose books, the author and the reader want to find a solution to the problem(s) raised. But with this book the problem seems to be that Mexico - in spite of its wonderful, warm, long-suffering people, is simply one of the worst places to be on planet Earth.
The author describes stunning levels of police/drug lord/government cruelty, corruption, incompetence and indifference. And unless you can take reading about horrific, probably unsolvable problems, you might want to skip this one.
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