Book : Midnight In Mexico A Reporters Journey Through A...

-Titulo Original : Midnight In Mexico A Reporters Journey Through A Countrys Descent Into Darkness

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Penguin Books

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One of Time Magazine’s Sixteen Best True Crime Books of All Time A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent MexicoIn the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group-and that he had twenty-four hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man’s quest to report the truth of his country-as he races to save his own life. Review Praise for Alfredo Corchado’s Midnight in Mexico: Electrifying… the portrait that Corcahdo paints is all the more heartrending for Mexicos extraordinary promise... Security and the drug war that are Mexicos biggest worries… watching Corchado struggle in the crucible, trying to do the right thing by his two homelands, one cant help being reminded… the dawn that will follow this midnight in Mexico will come only if we take some of the responsibility. The health of this neighbor is integral to our own.-Washington Post Corchado looks at Mexicos darkest hour. And doesnt blink.-Alan Cheuse, Dallas Morning News A riveting account that features many of the places and personalities that have been central to Mexicos recent nightmare…Corchado is a dogged and savvy journalist who manages to be everywhere a good reported should be… A unique binational perspective on the two countries he calls home, expressing admiration for the determination of U.S. and Mexican officials to fight a shared problem by taking on shared responsibility.-San Francisco Chronicle [Corchados] solid research and detailed understanding of the forces at work there make the book an important one for anyone who cares about Mexico, and his personal struggle with his homeland make it a raw, compelling read.-Miami Herald The secret revealed at [Midnight in Mexicos] conclusion is more compelling than Citizen Kane’s Rosebud… I won’t spoil the ending here, but you will shiver when you get there, and you may even weep. Either way, you will understand Corchado’s need to stay in Mexico and his need to bring us stories that we need to read.-Texas Observer An excellent, first-hand description of what a journalist must endure to report critically on Mexico.-El Paso Times Having lived and reported through four presidencies… His own story is emblematic… People are willing to do anything about Latin America other than read about it, or so its been said. This is one book about Latin America that merits attention.-Kirkus This book is about the blood-drenched borderlands that divide Alfredo Corchados two countries, Mexico and the United States, which still dominate his own life. Told against the backdrop of the horrifically violent drug wars that have turned much of Mexico into a charnel land, Corchado shares his own story and that of his family with a moving degree of honesty and acuity. Corchados love for his immigrant family and pride in what they have achieved is palpable, yet weighted down by a sense of what they, and Mexico, may have lost forever in the exchange. In many ways, Midnight in Mexico stands as a raw, real-life parable for the paradoxes of the Mexican-American experience, and it is both a riveting and gut-wrenching read.-Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life and The Fall of Baghdad Midnight in Mexico is the story of a journalists dangerous and notable efforts to report on Mexicos horrible drug wars. The book brings a special clarity, the clarity of the personal and particular, to a very important and confusing subject, and it i