Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future by Charles Bowden, Eduardo H. Galeano (Afterword), Noam Chomsky (Preface by)

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Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future. By Charles Bowden; Preface by Noam Chomsky. Afterword by Eduardo Galeano. Reveals conditions in the impoverished neighborhoods, work on foreignowned factory assemblylines, arrests and victims from drug and gang violencein short, everyday life in Juárezwith an urgency that could only grow from pure desperation. Focusing on the intimate relationship between two border towns, El Paso and Juárez, this collection of photography unites a powerful text by Charles Bowden with brutal and revealing images by littleknown Mexican photographers: Javier Aguilar, Jaime Bailleres, Gabriel Cardona, Julián Cardona, Alfredo Carillo, Raúl Lodoza, Jaime Murrieta, Miguel Perea, Margarita Reyes, Ernesto Rodríguez, Manuel Sáenz, Lucio Soria Espino, and Aurelio Suárez Núnez. Together these photographers take on issues of immigration, NAFTA, gangs, corruption, drug trafficking, and poverty, uncovering a Mexico very different from the one generally depicted in the American press. While Bowden presents a riveting investigation of Juárez, its inhabitants, and its visual chroniclers, the renowned activist and writer Noam Chomsky offers in his introduction a bitingly critical account of NAFTA, suggesting its nullifying effect on democracy and the rights of both workers and consumers. In his afterword, Galeano poses the question: Should the Third World really aspire to be like the First World? Charles Bowden is the author of nine books of nonfiction, including Blood Orchid, Desierto, and Blue Desert, as well as articles for Harper's, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history,contemporary issues, international affairs, and U.S. foreign policy. Eduardo Galeano is the author of We Say No: Chronicles 19631991, as well as many other books. 8 3/16 X 11, 136 pages, 100 color and blackandwhite photos; Hardcover.

"Filled with dozens of dramatic and disturbing images of everyday violence against the people of Juarez and against the land itself, Bowden's book acts, in Kafka's words, as an ax to break up the frozen sea within us."

Saul Landau, The L.A. Times Book Review

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Focuses on relations between the border towns of Juarez and El Paso to illuminate relations in general between Mexico and US, challenging media and government proclamations of milk and honey. Vivid and often gruesome images created by anonymous street photographers accompany descriptions of impoverished urban settlements, workers in foreign- owned factories, victims of drug and gang violence, the hardships of women and children, and other aspects of daily life for all but the privileged few. Noam Chomsky contributes the preface. No index or bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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