Tag Charles Bowden

The failed war on drugs and corruption in the US

Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields talks about how there are now 25,000 retail outlets for drugs in Tijuana now, that 23,000 have been killed recently in Mexico as a…

Who is behind the 25,000 deaths in Mexico?

Charles Bowden and Molly Molloy With at least 25,000 people slaughtered in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón hurled the Mexican Army into the anti-cartel battle, three questions remain unanswered: Who is being killed, who is doing the killing and why…

‘Murder City.’ Juarez is collapsing

Podcast interview from KUER at University of Utah Journalist Charles Bowden has spent some 15 years writing about Ciudad Juarez and in that time, he’s witnessed what he describes as the collapse of a society. In 2009, there were 2,600…