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The Sorrows of Mexico

Author : Lydia Cacho
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 0857056212
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Sorrows of Mexico written by Lydia Cacho and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared" leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798 were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's street children. Anabel Hernández and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio González Rodríguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed to oppose it.

A Massacre in Mexico

Author : Anabel Hernandez
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788731506
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book A Massacre in Mexico written by Anabel Hernandez and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. On route to a protest, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hernández reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hernández demolishes the Mexican state’s official version, which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the “historic truth”. As her research shows, state officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of “suspects” who then obliged with full “confessions” that matched the official lie. By following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, Massacre in Mexico shows with exacting precision who is responsible for which component of this monumental crime.

Infamy

Author : Lydia Cacho
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619028093
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Infamy written by Lydia Cacho and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, after publishing her book The Demons of Eden—where she denounced the very powerful men behind the a Mexican child pornography ring—Lydia Cacho became a target. Exactly eight months after the publication of the book, one morning as she was making her way to work, Lydia was apprehended by the police from the neighboring state of Puebla, and taken into custody during a nightmarish 24 hours during which she was tortured, intimidated and abused. In this chilling memoir, comparable to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, Lydia tells her story and exposes the horrific ways in which women—and young girls in particular—are abused then disposed of, while an oftentimes corrupt government simply sits and watches.

Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Author : Denise A. Segura
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822341185
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands written by Denise A. Segura and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the U.S.A., how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality, and give voice to their own agency.

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B

Author : Sandra Gulland
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 0684856069
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B written by Sandra Gulland and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 1999-08-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.

Mission of Sorrows

Author : John L. Kessell
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816501920
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Mission of Sorrows written by John L. Kessell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mission of Guevavi on the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona served as a focal point of Jesuit missionary endeavor among the Pima Indians on New Spain's far northwestern frontier. For three-quarters of a century, from the first visit by the renowned Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1691 until the Jesuit Expulsion in 1767, the difficult process of replacing one culture with another—the heart of the Spanish mission system—went on at Guevavi. Yet all but the initial years presided over by Father Kino have been forgotten. Drawing upon archival materials in Mexico, Spain, and the United States—including accounts by the missionaries themselves and the surviving pages of the Guevavi record books—Kessell brings to life those forgotten years and forgotten men who struggled to transform a native ranchería into an ordered mission community. Of the eleven Black Robes who resided at Guevavi between 1701 and 1767, only a few are well known to history. Others—such as Joseph Garrucho, who presided more years at Guevavi than any other Padre; Alexandro Rapicani, son of a favorite of Sweden's Queen Christina; Custodio Zimeno, Guevavi's last Jesuit—have the details of their roles filled in here for the first time. In this in-depth study of a single missionary center, Kessell describes in detail the daily round of the Padres in their activities as missionaries, educators, governors, and intercessors among the often-indifferent and occassionally hostile Pimas. He discusses the Pima uprising of 1751 and the events that led up to it, concluding that it actually continued sporadically for some ten years. The growing ferocity of the Apache, the disastrous results of certain government policies—especially the removal of the Sobaípuri Indians from the San Pedro Valley—and the declining native population due to a combination of enforced culture change and epidemics of European diseases are also carefully explored. The story of Guevavi is one of continuing adversity and triumph. It is the story, finally, of explusion for the Jesuits and, a few short years later, the end of Mission Guevavi at the hands of the Apaches. In Mission of Sorrows Kessell has projected meticulous research into a highly readable narrative to produce an important contribution to the history of the Spanish Borderlands.

Citizen Illegal

Author : José Olivarez
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608469557
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Illegal written by José Olivarez and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today

Love at the Border

Author : Anna Maria DiDio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737703501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Love at the Border written by Anna Maria DiDio and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring adoption memoir for those who have loved, lost and laughed along the way to making a family. After her third miscarriage, Anna Maria knew that adoption was the only way to realize the family of her dreams. Precocious six-year-old Priscilla, brought to an orphanage in the hills of Mexico as a baby, said she wanted a home of her own. Could this be the family that they both have been looking for? Not so fast. To lose her biological mother and the women who raised her was a devastating blow. At the same time, her language, culture, food and friends vanished in a blink. Priscilla learns what it means to be a daughter and a sister. Anna Maria's skills as a mother are tested in a profound way. In this deeply personal and moving memoir spanning fifteen years, Anna Maria reveals her struggles in breaking down barriers to give and receive love. Love at the Border shares intimate family moments with candor and honesty - a powerful testament to faith, family, and our need to belong.

Barbarous Mexico

Author : John Kenneth Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarous Mexico written by John Kenneth Turner and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.

Horizontal Vertigo

Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524748897
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Horizontal Vertigo written by Juan Villoro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.

Narcoland

Author : Anabel Hernández
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781682488
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Narcoland written by Anabel Hernández and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “investigative magnum opus” offers a jaw-dropping history of Mexican drug cartels as it transports readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times). “A riveting story . . . [from] an incredibly brave journalist.” —NPR The “war on drugs” has so far cost more than 60,000 lives. Hernández explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. At every turn, Hernández names not just the narcos, but also the politicians, functionaries, judges, and entrepreneurs who have collaborated with them. In doing so, she reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico’s government and business elite. Hernández became a journalist after her father was kidnapped and killed and the police refused to investigate without a bribe. She gained national prominence in 2001 with her exposure of excess and misconduct at the presidential palace, and previous books have focused on criminality at the summit of power, under presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón. The product of 5 years’ investigative reporting—and the subject of intense national controversy—Narcoland is a publishing and political sensation in Mexico.

The Mexico Diaries

Author : Daniel Theodore Gair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781717013835
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book The Mexico Diaries written by Daniel Theodore Gair and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take A Ride on the Mexican Side! In 2005 Dan Gair and his wife Holly Hunter went to Mexico in search of a bungalow near the beach to escape New England winters. After a chance encounter with someone desperate to sell a one hundred acre tract of land, Dan & Holly signed on to what would become a life-altering adventure. Now, more than a dozen years later comes 'The Mexico Diaries', a lively romp through the Mexican underbrush. In this humorous, fast-paced memoir, the reader meets eccentric travelers, corrupt cops, dangerous animals, esoteric shamans, narco henchmen, and colorful locals, all while experiencing sustainability boot camp, and the joys and sorrows of ranch life in Mexico. Considering Traveling, Homesteading, or Retiring in Mexico? Through a wealth of entertaining anecdotes, The Mexico Diaries explores life at the intersection of Americano and Mexican culture. This book will give nuanced insight for those considering Mexico as a destination and will serve as both encouragement to go, and cautionary tale. The Mexico Diaries is also the perfect primer for anyone interested in pursuing an alternative, sustainable lifestyle on foreign soil. Advance Praise For The Mexico Diaries "As lively and engaging an account of resettling in Mexico as you'll encounter, replete with goat wrangling, narcos, scorpions, and a rollicking cast of characters. As Dan and Holly, fleeing their stress-filled US lives, struggle to set up an eco-friendly community along Mexico's west coast, fiascos and triumphs mark their journey." - Tony Cohan, author of the best-selling memoir, On Mexican Time. "A whirlwind Mexican journey to sustainability and beyond" - SurvivingMexico.com / Book Reviews Dan Gair's writing style in his book, "The Mexico Diaries," brought me right into his and Holly's very personal version of their own "Robinson Crusoe" life. I was pulled quickly into his narrative, reading deep into the night, not wanting to put the book down. I thoroughly enjoyed his adventures, his sense of humor, and his outlook, particularly with the many challenges. A well written and most enjoyable narrative. - Vidda Chan, retired editor and ex-pat. "This is a wonderful memoir for a number of reasons, not the least of which is it presents the tale of an ex-pat couple who relocate to another country for the purpose of becoming acculturated as well as contributing to the health of the planet and its beings. Impressive and inspiring. Gair is a compassionate, observant, humorous, and insightful narrator, and his writing is vivid and moving. You're gonna love this book!" - Lynn Gray, author of the memoir Longing for the Wild and nine novels. By Purchasing or Gifting a Copy of The Mexico Diaries you are also Helping the Environment! The author will donate 50% of all profit to The Environmental Defense Fund. Buy a copy now and support your biosphere!

In a Village Far from Home

Author : Catherine Palmer Finerty
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520374
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book In a Village Far from Home written by Catherine Palmer Finerty and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do most career women do after a successful run on Madison Avenue? Catherine Finerty watched her friends settle into the country-club life. She opted instead for Mexico. When the 60-year-old widow loaded up her car and headed south, what she found at the end of the road was far from what she expected. Finerty settled into a comfortable house just outside of Guadalajara and, although not a Catholic, she soon immersed herself in Franciscan volunteer work. It wasn't long before she found herself visiting small settlements hidden in the tropical mountains of western Mexico, and it was in Jesœs Mar’aÑso isolated that one could only get there by mule or small planeÑthat she found her new calling: the village nurse. With its bugs and heat, no phones or running water, the tiny town was hardly a place to enjoy one's retirement years, but Finerty was quickly charmed by the community of Cora Indians and mestizos. Armed with modest supplies, a couple of textbooks, and common sense, she found herself delivering first aid, advising on public health, and administering injections. And in a place where people still believed in the power of shamans, providing health care sometimes required giving in to the magical belief that a hypodermic needle could cure anything. Finerty's account of her eight years in Jesœs Mar’a is both a compelling story of nursing under adverse conditions and a loving portrait of a people and their ways. She shares the joys and sorrows of this isolated world: religious festivals and rites of passage; the tragedy of illness and death in a place where people still rely on one another as much as medicine; a flash flood that causes such havoc that even less-than-pious village men attend Mass daily. And she introduces a cast of characters not unlike those in a novel: Padre Domingo and his airborne medical practice; the local bishop, who frowns on Finerty's slacks; Chela, a mestiza from whom she rents her modest two-room house (complete with scorpions); and the young Cora Indian woman Chuy, from whom she gains insight into her new neighbors. Blending memoir and travel writing, In a Village Far from Home takes readers deep into the Sierra Madre to reveal its true treasure: the soul of a people.

Lalo

Author : Lalo Guerrero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522149
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Lalo written by Lalo Guerrero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has been called "the father of Chicano music" and "the original Chicano hepcat." Now, Lalo's autobiography takes readers on a musical rollercoaster, from his earliest enjoyment of Latino and black sounds in Tucson to his burgeoning career in Los Angeles singing with Los Carlistas, the quartet with which he began his recording career in 1938.

Night of Sorrows

Author : Frances Sherwood
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393058253
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Night of Sorrows written by Frances Sherwood and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sold as a love slave to conquistador Hernán Cortés in the early sixteenth century, Aztec princess Malintzín accompanies him on a journey to Tenochtítlan, while Cortés and his temperamental compadres engage in a deadly battle that marks the end of the Aztec empire.

The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition

Author : Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807095451
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition written by Miguel Leon-Portilla and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors. León-Portilla's new Postscript reflects upon the critical importance of these unexpected historical accounts.

The Distance Between Us

Author : Reyna Grande
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451661800
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Distance Between Us written by Reyna Grande and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.