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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Excerpt from Homenaje A Cristobal Colon: Antiguedades Mexicanas; Publicadas por la Junta Colombina de Mexico en el Cuarto Centenario del Descubrimiento de America; Texto Asi quedaba ya respetable por el numero de sus piezas y por su importancia, y com prendia toda la civilizacion de la raza nahua, buen numero de ejemplares de la zapoteca y la mixteca, y algunos de la maya. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses...

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El México envenenado de odios será un México de burócratas aprovechadores e ineficientes que, convencidos de la imposibilidad de hacer nada efectivo, se lanzan a la vorágine de la corrupción y la apatía. Un hombre desmoralizado es un protagonista de mordidas y delincuencia. Es la torpeza y el desgano. El México grande está entre su misma gente, si desmonta la trampa afectiva que le han tendido los militares del odio. El México optimista e industrioso es el que puede pensar que su pasado indigena y espanol es plataforma y no lastre. El Mexico grandioso dejara de ser un sueno cuando...