Charles Bowden, author of The War Next Door (reprinted in the July-August 2010 issue of Utne Reader), has been reporting from Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez for 15 years. He is an indefatigable chronicler of the violence there–be it physical or economic. Here’s more from Bowden:
Interviews:
Charles Bowden Chronicles ‘Murder City’ (Interview with The Takeaway)
Charles Bowden on “The War Next Door” (Interview with Democracy Now!)
A Fly on the Wall Watching the Drug War (Interview with BuzzFlash)
Books:
Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields (2010)
A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior (2006)