In Ciudad Juarez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Truman Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly incomprehensible triple murder, Sandra Rodriguez Nieto paints a haunting and unforgettable portrait of one of the most violent cities on Earth. This in-depth and harrowing investigation into the thought processes of three boys leads the reader on an exploration of the city of Juarez, as well as the drug cartels that have waged war on its streets, in a bold attempt to explain the inexplicable.
Ideally qualified for telling this story, Sandra Rodriguez Nieto was an investigative reporter for the daily newspaper El Diario de Juarez for nearly a decade. Despite tremendous danger and the assassination of one of her closest colleagues, she persisted. She didn't want the story of her city told solely by foreign reporters, because, in her words, "I know what is underneath the violence." This book traces the rise of a national culture of murder and bloody retribution, and is a testament to the extraordinary bravery of its author. Among other things, The Story of Vicente is an account of how poverty, political corruption, failing government institutions and US meddling combined to create an explosion of violence in Juarez.
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As crime-beat reporter for the local paper (a job that cost her closest colleague his life), Sandra Rodriguez lives and narrates the brutalization of her city, Ciudad Juarez, at a range so close and raw it is painful to read. Yet 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 Rodriguez 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 Juarez and in Mexico. If you want to understand Juarez, you have to read Sandra. -- Oscar Martinez, author of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail Sandra Rodriguez 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 Juarez. 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 Juarez, 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. -- Jose Luis Benavides, California State University, Northridge Rodriguez paints a dismal portrait of a border city in distress. It's a necessary portrait that government officials and other promoters of Juarez might prefer we not view or ponder. -- Ramon Renteria, <i>El Paso Times</i>
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 146 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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978-1-78478-104-0 (9781784781040)
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Sandra Rodriguez Nieto began reporting for the Ciudad Juarez daily newspaper El Diario in 2003. She has received the Reporteros Del Mun-do 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 Uni-versity Nieman Fellow in 2014. She now reports for Sin Embargo.
