Julián Cardona
Auteur de Murder city : Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields
Œuvres de Julián Cardona
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1960
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Mexico
- Lieu de naissance
- Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico
- Lieux de résidence
- Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
- Professions
- photographer
journalist
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Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 264
- Popularité
- #87,286
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 2
This book is about the crime in Juárez, Mexico, and how it has escalated to the point where 300 murders a month is commonplace, where everybody is controlled by the drug-selling cartels and corruption is the way of doing things.
At first, reading things like the following stanza from the book:
...felt a bit dramatic, but, I can assure you, it's far less than dramatic over the course of reading more than 30-50 pages. It's commonplace, and not jaded. After a while I was shocked with the gist of
a birds-eye view of things:
It just keeps going, on a personal level, i.e. without facts having been completely drawn from books:
When the cartels are actually openly searching for merciless killers to join their death-squads, you get a sense of how much people are prepared to do to earn money from selling drugs:
While the violence, the daily life in it and the way that the author constructs this in the book is well-written, there is also a lucid, poetic deal to the book. Throughout it, the author draws parallels to "Miss Sinaloa", a woman who was "raped out of her mind", and a former beauty queen:
The poetic tangent actually works to the benefit of the book, as it enhances the feeling of how hum-drum murder, rape and corruption has actually become, and how everything that is officially reported throughout the town seems to have very little or nothing to do with reality.
As with the Italian mafias, there have been some serious attempts made to get to the problem from its core:
And to further address how widespread corruption, lying and how the information in the city papers are to be believed:
Some notes from the people of Juarez are also very interesting:
And as the author talks to a professional hitman (whom are called "sicarios", of whom there seems to be quite a lot of in the city):
And on...
It's all daunting. Very heavy.
Even despite the way things have been going and, indeed, are going, the author and life itself leans towards hope, but not without a very real way of getting at things. I wish this book would have explained global drug trading and how the future of drug trade and the workings of the cartels could pan out, as this would perhaps have provided a very special prognosis of things to come. But will change come, really? The drug trade is simply too rich. Its dividends pay off too easily, and its main players refuse to give up their positions; to what, really? Minimum-wage jobs in low-interest sectors?
This is a really well-composed and well-written book. The tempo, the pace and the feeling is more than most non-fiction books ever get, and with the poetic tinge throughout makes this memorable. And very sad.… (plus d'informations)