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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A courageous young journalist takes his readers deep inside the hunt for the most powerful, feared, and charismatic drug lord in the world---Mexico's Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman---and tells the full story of the drug trade over the past thirty years.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's a history that has involved periods of great friendship with robust trade and loose immigration policies. But the US-Mexican relationship has also been beset by wars, drug trade, and human trafficking. And with the latest Trump-induced xenophobia towards Mexico this book contextualizes how it is the latest swing in the up-and-down 200-year history between these countries. 'Fandango at the Wall' also addresses how the broken relationship between...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward understanding the U.S./Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles -- from Boca Chica to Tijuana -- pressing on with the useful fiction of a map...Along the journey, five centuries of cultural history (indigenous, French, Spanish, Mexican, African American, colonist, and U.S.), wars, and legislation unfold. And through observation, conversation, and meditation, Border Odyssey scopes the stories of the people and towns...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A damning portrait of the U.S.-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and immigrants are targeted.
Over the past three decades, U.S. immigration and border security policies have turned the southern states into conflict zones, spawned a network of immigrant detention centers, and unleashed an army of ICE agents into cities across the country.
As award-winning journalist John Carlos Frey reveals...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This is the true story of how El Chapo built the world's wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking operation, based on months' worth of trial testimony and dozens of interviews with cartel gunmen, Mexican journalists and political figures, Chapo's family members, and the DEA agents who brought him down. Over the course of three decades, El Chapo was responsible for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, meth, and fentanyl...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"'Será posible -- se cuestionó [Carranza] sepultado en un críptico silencio -- que ahora mismo, en febrero de 1917, aprovechando la guerra europea podamos recuperar nuestra Tejas, sí, así, con jota, como se debe escribir, además de Arizona, Nuevo México y tal vez hasta la mismísima California...?' Una red de espionaje, tejida alrededor de México, solo busca el momento oportuno para iniciar una guerra. Por otro lado, Venustiano Carranza tiene...
Author
Publisher
Savio Republic, an imprint of Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Vicente Fox offers his unique viewpoint as a former head of state, avid historian, and true admirer of America's constitutional ideals. He knows where a Trump presidency can lead--and it is nowhere good. Let's Move On is a political manifesto written in Fox's trademark, no-nonsense style where he both denounces Trump's malignant anti-intellectualism and inspires people to rise up and resist.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"La guerra contra el narco, la alternancia en los gobiernos de México y Estados Unidos, la captura y extradición de capos, la atomización de cárteles, el surgimiento de nuevos líderes, las fluctuaciones del mercado nacional e internacional y la evolución en el tráfico y consumo de estupefacientes han creado un nuevo México, que atraviesa la mayor crisis de violencia en 80 años. Ylas estrategias gubernamentales la empeoran: los abrazos en...
Publisher
KERA
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In 1845, President John Tyler signed a Congressional resolution to annex Texas, and by 1846, 4,000 troops were on the Rio Grande. Shortly thereafter, President James Polk proposed that Mexico sell its northern half to the U.S. Hostilities commenced and the U.S. crossed the border to occupy Matamoras, U.S. warships landed troops at Veracruz, who fought their way overland to Mexico City. Santa Anna led a defending army, but the Mexicans were overwhelmed....
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Han pasado 17 meses desde la toma de posesión de Antonio M. Lugo Olea, AMLO, como presidente de todos los mexicanos. 17 meses en los que la desesperanza y la decepción han nublado su gobierno. Sus detractores son cada vez más y el parece haber perdido por completo el control del país. Para empeorar su situación, Trump ha decidido que la hora de un encuentro, frente a frente, en la Casa Blanca, ha llegado. Mariano Everhard, su secretario de Relaciones...
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