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The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women Paperback – September 27, 2006

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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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404 pages
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English
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Peace at theBorder
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September 27, 2006
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6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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0615140084
ISBN-13

978-0615140087
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peace at theBorder; First Edition (stated) (September 27, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 404 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615140084
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615140087
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,183,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,444 in Women in History
- #4,551 in Criminology (Books)
- #5,052 in Murder & Mayhem True Accounts

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Diana Washington Valdez, an international author-journalist in Texas, is one of the most interviewed journalists alive today. Over the years, she reported on government corruption, immigration, drug-trafficking, the military and high-profile crimes. Her investigation into the women's murders in Juarez, Mexico, is featured in the film "Border Echoes" by Lorena Mendez-Quiroga. She was a guest on TV and radio programs and other documentaries like Al Jazeera's "Witness" in London, Investigation Discovery's "On the Case with Paula Zahn" in New York, A&E's "The Killing Season" in Albuquerque, N.M., Televisa's "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos in Miami, Televisa's "Despierta" with Carlos Loret de Mola in Mexico City, iHeart's podcast "Forgotten: The Women of Juarez," "Dark Suns" by Julien Elie, among others. She also contributed to radio programs in Canada (CBC), the U.S. (NPR), and Mexico (Radio Activa). She received numerous awards and recognitions for investigative reporting, column writing, breaking news, and feature stories. Her books on the Juarez women's murders were published in Spanish (Cosecha de Mujeres) in Mexico and Spain and in English (The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women) in the U.S. Both versions will be re-released later this year in digital format. The author, who is bilingual, has a political science degree from the University of Texas at El Paso, taught political science, and served in the military.

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Karen Montgomery

Make sure you have tissues

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 9, 2021

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Make sure you have tissues. This book will break your heart and make you so angry, at the same time!!! I don’t like books that play the blame game, and this one doesn’t. Heartbreaking facts and political scum. Thank you to the author for writing this!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2010

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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.

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L. Hauge

Informative, very flawed.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 10, 2020

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Literally on the second page the author notes "many victims are marked with a triangle. A triangle is synonymous with ultra right-wing politics, and na*is."

Wow, really? A subject about young women being murdered and you are bringing your political views into the topic? Okay so Mexican murderers are extremely right wing? This is news to me considering most of the time 'right wing' is considered white people. Also na*is in Mexico? Wouldn't people notice this? Do they have secret underground bases? I didn't know there
were na*is with reddish brown skin living in Mexico, speaking Spanish.!

I happen to study a lot of WWII na*i era history and not once have i discovered a triangle being used by them as iconography. These are unsubstantiated Ridiculous claims the author makes to demonize her political opponents. Completely pathetic.

To the author:
Thieves don't care whom is power as long they can steal
Rapists don't care who is in power as long as they can rape
Murderers don't care who is in power as long as they can murder

All of these criminals will do this no matter what.

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arabella

very bad book, very important topic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2016

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This book is VERY chaotically written and even more chaotically organized. It may be simply reprints of newspaper articles. Nothing is followed up, things that were mentioned before are mentioned again as if for the first time, nothing's in chronological order. The index leaves out most of the mentions of each person's name. It's as if it were thrown together overnight. But the subject is so important that I can't give it the one star that it deserves. At least it tries to publicize the fact that hundreds and hundreds of women are being kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered and that nothing will be done about it.

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cd ybarra

Well done

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2020

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Well written documentation of the horrifying murders of women in Juarez Mexico.

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paul reithmayer

If you think you know the border read it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2015

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A must read, the brutality of the border

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2007

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. This Dirty War was covertly encouraged and supported by the USA as part of it's Cold War strategy. It's a horrifying example of what the intelligence community refers to as 'blowback'.

The amount and specificity of information make this the best single source of information on this issue that I've encountered. Valdez names names and cites her sources to the extent that is possible. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to begin to understand this issue and especially to journalists, human rights activists and researchers who are working on this issue.

This book isn't for everyone. I contains graphic descriptions of victims horrific acts of violence. This is not done gratuitously as the victims' bodies have given forensics experts important clues that Valdez uses to unravel some of the mysteries. And some people might not take to the journalistic writing style of Valdez, a journalist for the El Paso Times, because it doesn't always flow the way a good novelist might tell a story. Some times information is thrown in for factual completeness that kind of breaks the rhythm of the narrative. for that reason I recommend this more for a person who wants to learn about the Jaurez femicides than for someone looking for an entertaining story.

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Ana

Great account of what happened in Juarez

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2021

Chilling, reverting! Great account of what happened to the women of Juarez and the corruption that takes place at all levels of government.
Great read!

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19k60

A Mexican Holocaust

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 29, 2013

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Personal stories of a continuing barbarbic episode in Mexican history,sometimes a very difficult read charting the horrendous tortures suffered by these women and girls and the alleged complicity of officials in either the crimes themselves but certainly the none investigations uncovered by this brave reporter.
Between the drug cartels and an offialdom reknowned for its corruption attempting to investigate these events was always going to be difficult but perseverence and no amount of bravery has resulted in an excoriating book on Mexico's atrocious treatment of their women folk which these crimes exemplify.
In a land at war with itself the only victors appear to be the banks laundering their ill gotten gains,D.W.Valdez and others like her stand as beacons of hope in an ever darkening situation.As fresh atrocities printed recently show with men and women gunned down at will and with apparent impunity the only change is that between night and day.
Surely real life crime cannot get more revolting than this,possibly one for more hardcore fans than the casual reader.

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