The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister
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The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister by Sandra Nieto
The intimate story of a teenager's murder of his family, from award-winning Mexican journalist
As crime-beat reporter for the local paper (a job that cost her closest colleague his life), Sandra Rodríguez lives and narrates the brutalization of her city, Ciudad Juárez, at a range so close and raw it is painful to readYet this book-on intimate terms with Mexico's narco-carnage, and from under its skin-draws us irretrievably into an abyss we need to know; this is the masterpiece of reportage from the murder capital of the world. -- Ed Vulliamy, author of Amexica: War Along the Borderline
Sandra Rodríguez is a reporter the corrupt want to keep at a distance. Untiring, exhaustive, intelligent. This is the only kind of reporter who could turn a case like that of Vicente, a child-murderer, into a story about the world of the mafia and the impunity of violence that reigns in Ciudad Juárez and in Mexico. If you want to understand Juárez, you have to read Sandra. -- Óscar Martínez, author of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Sandra Rodríguez Nieto has got some guts. For more than a decade, she has reported from one of the world's most dangerous cities to be a journalist-Ciudad Juárez. And in The Story of Vicente she paints a shattering portrait of that boomtown's deadly violence and how it ruined the life of an ordinary boy. -- Somini Sengupta, author of The End of Karma: Home and Fury among India’s Young
Her book, like no other recent book written about Juárez, adds layers of understanding that make the reader appreciate the complexities of the problem, moving away from facile explanations and solutions advanced by government officials on both sides of the border. -- José Luis Benavides, California State University, Northridge
Rodríguez paints a dismal portrait of a border city in distress. It's a necessary portrait that government officials and other promoters of Juárez might prefer we not view or ponder. -- Ramón Renteria, El Paso Times
Sandra Rodríguez is a reporter the corrupt want to keep at a distance. Untiring, exhaustive, intelligent. This is the only kind of reporter who could turn a case like that of Vicente, a child-murderer, into a story about the world of the mafia and the impunity of violence that reigns in Ciudad Juárez and in Mexico. If you want to understand Juárez, you have to read Sandra. -- Óscar Martínez, author of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Sandra Rodríguez Nieto has got some guts. For more than a decade, she has reported from one of the world's most dangerous cities to be a journalist-Ciudad Juárez. And in The Story of Vicente she paints a shattering portrait of that boomtown's deadly violence and how it ruined the life of an ordinary boy. -- Somini Sengupta, author of The End of Karma: Home and Fury among India’s Young
Her book, like no other recent book written about Juárez, adds layers of understanding that make the reader appreciate the complexities of the problem, moving away from facile explanations and solutions advanced by government officials on both sides of the border. -- José Luis Benavides, California State University, Northridge
Rodríguez paints a dismal portrait of a border city in distress. It's a necessary portrait that government officials and other promoters of Juárez might prefer we not view or ponder. -- Ramón Renteria, El Paso Times
Sandra Rodríguez Nieto began reporting for the Ciudad Juárez daily newspaper El Diario in 2003. She has received the Reporteros Del Mundo prize from the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the Knight International Journalism Award from the International Center for Journalists, and the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. She was a Harvard University Nieman Fellow in 2014. She now reports for Sin Embargo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784781040 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784781045 |
| Title | The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister |
| Author | Sandra Nieto |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2015-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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