border city

Journalist Charles Bowden says that at first glimpse the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez looks like a flat tapestry of one-story buildings.

His new book, Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, focuses on the killings in Mexico's drug capital.

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In the throes of a vicious drug war, Mexico's border city of Juarez — with its endless wave of kidnappings and executions — has become one of the most violent places on earth.

The city is shouldering unfathomable sorrow, and its mothers are the most public face of that suffering.

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