The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War

by Ricardo C. Ainslie

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292738900
• ISBN13: 9780292738904
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"