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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents\n\nCHARLES BOWDEN\nMurder City: Ciudad Juarez 
 and the Global Economy’s\nNew Killing Fields\n\n$10 advance tickets: 
 www.brownpapertickets.com/event/104613, 800-838-3006 \nor: Pegasus Books, 
 Pendragon, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, 
 and Modern Times  ($12 door, $6 HC members)\n\nInformation: 
 www.kpfa.org/events    KPFA benefit \n\nIn 2008, 1607 people were murdered 
 in Ciudad Juarez, just across the Rio Grande from  El Paso, Texas. In 2009, 
 the murder total was 2660. 2010 will probably be worse. Many are raped and 
 murdered women. How did this once-peaceful border town become such a horror 
 show? \n\nCharles Bowden is the author of eleven books including A Shadow 
 in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Dog; Down By the River: Drugs, 
 Money, Murder and Family; Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future; Blood 
 Orchid: An Unnatural History of America; Desierto: Memories of the Future; 
 Red Line; Blue Desert; and (with Michael Binstein) Trust Me: Charles 
 Keating and the Missing Billions. He is a contributing editor of Esquire, 
 and he writes for other magazines such as Harper’s and The New York Times 
 Book Review. Winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, he 
 lives in Tucson, Arizona.  He has been extensively covering Mexico’s drug 
 war. His article in Mother Jones Magazine described a Mexican reporter 
 seeking political asylum in the U.S. to escape threats from the Mexican 
 military, and another in Harper’s Magazine was a profile of a Mexican 
 police commander who worked as a paid assassin for drug cartels.\n\nBowden 
 reports: “The US government is pretending the Mexican army is some 
 partner in some war against drugs. In fact, what’s going on in Mexico is 
 a war for drugs as the economy collapses. The army has moved in and taken 
 over police departments all over the country. There’s 8000 to 10, 000 
 federal troops and federal police now in Juarez. Every place they’ve gone 
 they’ve terrified the people … Twelve thousand people have died since 
 December 2006 in this initiative. That’s far more than we’ve lost with 
 our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan…” \n\n“A thrillingly good writer 
 whose grandness of vision is only heightened by the bleak originality of 
 his voice.” — New York Times Book Review\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/20/18642186.php
SUMMARY:CHARLES BOWDEN: Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
LOCATION:Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/20/18642186.php
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