Read by Charles Bowden

Just across the Rio Grande from El Paso sits Juarez, Mexico, a city so overtaken
with the violence of drug trafficking that its leading citizens.police, politicians,
even the drug lords.find it safer to live in El Paso. Bowden, critically acclaimed
author of Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing (2009), details the forces that have
led to Mexico.s place in the multinational drug business. Hundreds of millions of
dollars flow into Juarez each week, and the violence and corruption that follow
yield 200 to 300 murders each year. Bowden laments the silence on both sides of
the border that permits the slaughter that goes mostly unnoted and unreported.
Behind the numbers, he details the lives lost or destroyed: a reporter fleeing for
his life with his young son, a beautiful woman gang-raped, a killer for the cartels
who is now being hunted. He chronicles a town that has been the site of numerous
mass graves of victims and of monuments to fallen police that bear hit lists from
the cartels. A stark, haunting look at the impact of drug trafficking on a town and
its people.

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