Charles Bowden

La ciudad del crimen: Ciudad Juarez y los nuevos campos de exterminio de la economía global (2011)

Scorching.Charles Bowden knows the Southwest. He knows Ciudad Juárez. He's walked its streets, He's talked to its people. He has no patience for armchair pundits. He knows where the bodies are buried.Literally.Bowden's book is about Juárez in the year of 2008, when--as John Wesley Harding said a ...

Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields (2010)

Magical Thinking I want to comfort the murder city dreamland el sicario of Bowden's teeth worn invisibly around his neck and now and then torn off to throw in the soup, but Magical Thinking, one of two ways to be safe and sane, requires silence, which means pretend nothing is happening. Facsimile...

Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (2006)