Dios, patria y muerte

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...

Los apaches, pueblo del sudoeste de EE.UU., erraron por montañas y desiertos sin abandonar la vida nómada. Carecían de gobierno, adoraban a la naturaleza y evitaban las ceremonias. Divididos en bandas, vivían en sus territorios de caza. Místicos y materialistas al tiempo, creían en fuerzas sobrenaturales y en el "poder contra los enemigos", que les capacitaba, según la tradición, para derrotar a los adversarios. Se decía que algunos hombres sabios -como Gerónimo, jefe mítico- tenían capacidades adivinatorias. Aunque nunca fueron muy numerosos, los apaches resistieron con éxito a...

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