San Juan de Dios y su Orden Hospitalaria

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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...

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"Effective historical sociology of migration from Catalonia to the Americas - especially to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Argentina - emphasizes importance of family networks. Impressive combination of archival research and broad reading of parallel migration studies; thoroughly footnoted"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.