Author: Alicia Gaspar De Alba
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: murders, juarez, blood, desert
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2005-03-31
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1558854460
ISBN-13: 9781558854468
Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders Alicia Gaspar de Alba, March 31, 2005, ISBN 1-55885-446-0, Clothbound, $23.95 An incisive mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the US / Mexico border It’s the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped on the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants of both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa
Authors:Charles Bowden, Alice Leora Briggs,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: juarez, way, dreamland
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2010-04-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0292722079
ISBN-13: 9780292722071
’In a nice Mexican bar, the air now cool, the glare gone briefly, a glass in hand, calm, yes calm, music from speakers ...a soothing music, and the eyes of everyone in the place seem peaceful, the bartender a smile ...it is safe but then, the thought comes that only at such moments can you be taken, that it is not the midnight street, the dark alley, the clot of cholos leaning against a wall on the corner, the police with their cash register eyes, the new pickups, huge and with darkened glass, no, it is not these signals of menace that one must be on guard for. It is this moment in the b
Author: Alicia Gaspar De Alba
Publisher: Arte Publico Pr
Keywords: murders, juarez, blood, desert
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1558855084
ISBN-13: 9781558855083
It’s the summer of 1998 and for five years, over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora worker in Juárez. When Cecilia turns up strangled and disemboweled in the desert, Ivon is thrown into the churning chaos
Author: Patrick J. McNamara
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: ixtlã¡n, oaxaca, people, dãaz, sierra, juã¡rez, sons
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0807857874
ISBN-13: 9780807857878
The period following Mexico’s war with the United States in 1847 was characterized by violent conflicts, as liberal and conservative factions battled for control of the national government. The civil strife was particularly bloody in south central Mexico, including the southern state of Oaxaca. In Sons of the Sierra, Patrick McNamara explores events in the Oaxaca district of Ixtl¡n, where Zapotec Indians supported the liberal cause and sought to exercise influence over statewide and national politics.Two Mexican presidents had direct ties to Ixtl¡n district: Benito Ju¡rez, who s
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