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A NARCO HISTORY
How the United States and Mexico Jointly Constructed the "Mexican Drug War"
Who started the "War Against Drugs," and why? What are its consequences in real terms, not mere statistics? Two legendary prize-winning writers, one Mexican and the other American, confront this issue head-on. We learn economic disaster, mass migration of families fleeing violence, and chaos have ensued as direct results of this disastrous policy promulgated by the U.S. Government. Before the attack on supposedly rampant drugs, Mexico had one of the lowest crime rates and lowest addiction rates in Latin America. Now, it may be the most crime-ridden, drug-infested country on the planet.
What few of us outside the affected areas know is the human cost of this war, which is taking more than 50,000 lives a year in Mexico alone. Here, for the first time, is an eloquent firsthand account of what that means: not by a journalist or muckraker, but a world-class literary novelist.
Carmen Boullosa has published 15 novels, most recently Tejas, La virgen y el violín, El complot de los románticos and Las paredes hablan. Her novels in English translation are Texas: The Great Theft; They're Cows, We're Pigs; Leaving Tabasco and Cleopatra Dismounts. She has received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in Mexico, the Anna Seghers and Liberaturpreis in Germany, and the Café Gijón Prize in Madrid. She is a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Creadores.
Mike Wallace, Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and director of the Gotham Center for New York City History, won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press). He is the founder, co-publisher and editor of the Radical History Review and author of the essay collection Mickey Mouse History (1996).
ES REICHT!
Der Fall Mexiko: Warum wir eine neue
globale Drogenpolitik brauchen
Deutsch von Gabriele Gockel und Thomas Wollermann
[HC Kunstmann 10/15; bpb Ausgabe 07/16]
What few of us outside the affected areas know is the human cost of this war, which is taking more than 50,000 lives a year in Mexico alone. Here, for the first time, is an eloquent firsthand account of what that means: not by a journalist or muckraker, but a world-class literary novelist.
Carmen Boullosa has published 15 novels, most recently Tejas, La virgen y el violín, El complot de los románticos and Las paredes hablan. Her novels in English translation are Texas: The Great Theft; They're Cows, We're Pigs; Leaving Tabasco and Cleopatra Dismounts. She has received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in Mexico, the Anna Seghers and Liberaturpreis in Germany, and the Café Gijón Prize in Madrid. She is a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Creadores.
Mike Wallace, Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and director of the Gotham Center for New York City History, won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press). He is the founder, co-publisher and editor of the Radical History Review and author of the essay collection Mickey Mouse History (1996).
ES REICHT!
Der Fall Mexiko: Warum wir eine neue
globale Drogenpolitik brauchen
Deutsch von Gabriele Gockel und Thomas Wollermann
[HC Kunstmann 10/15; bpb Ausgabe 07/16]
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