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Title: Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future by Charles Bowden ISBN: 0-89381-776-7 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Distorted, pessimistic view of Cd. Juarez
Comment: This book focuses on all the ugly and evil aspects of this border town, and omits anything positive about the place. If you are a reader who has not spent considerable time working or living in Cd. Juarez, this book will grossly distort reality and scare you from setting foot into Mexico. I almost want to write a photo-book myself of all the virtues of the place. Yes, Juarez has it's share of problems, but as the citizens will tell you, things are always getting better. The writing seems very politically motivated, and definitely one-sided. I think someone could write a book just as disturbing while only focusing on slums in american cities. This book doesnt give Cd. Juarez a fair shake. But if you like photos of dead bodies, you will still enjoy this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Painfully real pictures
Comment: I've twice been to the Colonia's of Cd. Juarez. I have not, thank God, witnessed the violence.
I have seen the poverty.
The photographs in "Juarez, the laboratory of our future" are painful to view. The work of skilled local photographers, the pictures jump from the pages and into your heart. Life in a Colonia is a nightmare.
As the text makes clear, the causes of the poverty and violence are complex. But it is certain that we, the consumers of cheap goods, are adding to the pain when we buy the product output of Juarez, but bar the producers from escaping their Hell. The people in the Colonias are living lives very the close to those suffered by WWII slave laborers in Europe and elsewhere.
Where are the liberation forces?
Rating: 5
Summary: the tradgedy of Juarez now has faces and names
Comment: In picture and word, the ugliness is now real. The stories will make you think: peace and justice, what have I done to make it this way? Can I sit by while my brothers and sisters suffer?
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Title: Down by the River : Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden ISBN: 0684853434 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Drug Lord, the Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin by Terrence E. Poppa ISBN: 0966443004 Publisher: Demand Publications Pub. Date: 23 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground by Charles Bowden ISBN: 0865476241 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 06 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border & the Assassination of a Federal Judge : An American Parable by Gary Cartwright ISBN: 0938317350 Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Late Great Mexican Border: Reports from a Disappearing Line by Bobby Byrd, Susannah Mississippi Byrd ISBN: 0938317245 Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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