The Fight to Save Juarez by Ricardo C Ainslie
The city of Ju rez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calder n deployed in the war were sent to Ju rez, and nearly 20 percent of the country's drug-related executions have taken place in the city, a city that can be as unforgiving as the hardest places on earth. It is here that the Mexican government came to turn the tide. Whatever happens in Ju rez will have lasting repercussions for both Mexico and the United States. Ricardo Ainslie went to Ju rez to try to understand what was taking place behind the headlines of cartel executions and other acts of horrific brutality. In The Fight to Save Ju rez, he takes us into the heart of Mexico's bloodiest city through the lives of four people who experienced the drug war from very different perspectives--Mayor Jos Reyes Ferriz, a mid-level cartel player's mistress, a human rights activist, and a photojournalist. Ainslie also interviewed top Mexican government strategists, including members of Calder n's security cabinet, as well as individuals within U.S. law enforcement. The dual perspective of life on the ground in the drug war and the big picture views of officials who are responsible for the war's strategy, creates a powerful, intimate portrait of an embattled city, its people, and the efforts to rescue Ju rez from the abyss.
Ainslie, Ricardo C.: - Ricardo Ainslie is a psychologist-psychoanalyst who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and an affiliate faculty member in American Studies and at the Center for Mexican American Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780292738904 |
| ISBN 10 | 0292738900 |
| Title | The Fight to Save Juarez |
| Author | Ricardo C Ainslie |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press |
| Year published | 2013-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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