$19.00
ISBN: 9780143125532
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Published: Penguin Books - May 27th, 2014
With eighty-eight journalists killed since 2000, Mexico has become one of the world's most dangerous countries for reporters. "They are threatened and murdered by organized crime or corrupt officials with impunity," explains Reporters Without Borders. "The resulting climate of fear leads to self-censorship and undermines freedom of information."
Alfredo Corchado, a Nieman, Woodrow Wilson, and Rockefeller fellow and the Mexico bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News, knows one thing or two about the willingness of Mexico's dark forces to silence journalists. One night in 2007, Corchado, who had long been reporting on government corruption, murders in Juárez, and Mexican ruthless drug cartels, received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group—and that he had twenty-four hours to find out if the threat was true.
MIDNIGHT IN MEXICO is not only the moving and gripping journey of a reporter to understand and expose the truths of the newfound country he left as a kid. It is also a must-read for those on this side of the border willing to understand the hidden war next door we are, admittedly or not, part of—one that keeps getting more convoluted, and more tragic, by the minute.
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho is the author of the critically-acclaimed story collection BAREFOOT DOGS. A former John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University and a Dobie Paisano fellow in fiction, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, Salon, Etiqueta Negra, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, where he's at work on a novel.
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