The killing fields : harvest of women : the truth about Mexico's bloody border legacy / Diana Washington Valdez

Author: Washington Valdez, Diana
Published: Los Angeles : Peace at the Border, [2007]
Copyright Date: ©2006
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical Description: 390 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 23 cm

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Contents

Prologue. Deaths that cry out -- 1. Border safari -- 2. Near cartel ranch -- 3. Lomas de Poleo -- 4. Atrocities -- 5. Sagrario's death -- 6. The gringo -- 7. Cristo Negro -- 8. Death of a lawyer -- 9. Cotton field murders -- 10. Crime scene -- Map of the danger zone -- 11. The drug cartel -- 12. Amado's cartel -- 13. Isabel and Heidi -- 14. Cartel wars -- 15. The police cartel -- 16. Terror with a badge -- 17. Police blotter -- 18. Sharif the Egyptian -- 19. Investigations on trial -- 20. Escaped serial killer -- 21. FBI : operation Plaza Sweep -- 22. FBI : Mexico's "dirty war" -- 23. FBI : the femicides -- 24. FBI : botched operation -- 25. Modus operandi -- 26. Operation Sagrario -- 27. Mexico's secret files -- 28. Pacts of power -- 29. Chihuahua City -- 30. The femicides spread -- Map of Mexico femicides -- 31. The politicians -- 32. The pact -- Epilogue. What must be done.

Subject(s)

Women—Crimes against—Mexico—Ciudad Juárez
Serial murders—Mexico—Ciudad Juárez
Murder victims—Mexico—Ciudad Juárez
Mass murder—Mexico—Ciudad Juárez
Drug traffic—Mexico—Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)—Politics and government

ISBN

9780615140087
0615140084

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographic references (pages [347]-357) and index.

Source of Acquisition

UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Edwin Erle Sparks Memorial Library Fund; 20078.

Endowment Note

Edwin Erle Sparks Memorial Library Fund

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