Fight the Empire on 06/07/12

Fight the Empire
Air date: 
Thu, 06/07/2012 - 9:30am - 10:00am
Short Description: 
Murder City

Host Per Fagereng speaks with Charles Bowden, the critically acclaimed author of many books including Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family, A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior, Blood Orchid, and Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future. He is a contributing writer for Mother Jones, and his work frequently appears Harper's magazine, GQ, the New York Times Book Review, Aperture, and many others.


In Murder City, Charles Bowden writes about what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants--a raped beauty queen, a repentant hit man, a journalist fleeing for his life--with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juárez's culture of violence will not only worsen but inevitably spread north.


Murder City Show

I am looking forward to this show...while living in Oklahoma, I heard alot about the crime in El Paso, and how folks went missing down there alot...especially women.

