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MEDIA CONTACT Elizabeth Zamora (972) 499-6631 [email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Morning News Award-Winning Bureau Chief Launches Haunting Memoir

“Midnight in Mexico” Reveals Details on Alfredo Corchado’s Experience While Covering the

(DALLAS) – , in partnership with The Penguin Press, announced a three-day book tour in Dallas that will feature award-winning Mexico Bureau Chief Alfredo Corchado’s memoir, “Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through A Country’s Decent into Darkness.” Among other issues, the book details Corchado’s experience while covering the Mexican drug war from 1994 to 2007 when he received a chilling threat from the cartels.

Corchado bravely reported on Mexico’s corrupted government, frequent murders in Juarez and powerful drug cartels. But in 2007, Corchado became part of the story when he was told by a longtime, trusted source and U.S. investigator who had informants in some of Mexico’s most brutal drug cartels, that he could be the next target of a drug trafficking group, the Zetas. Corchado had 24 hours to discover if he was one of three American journalists that were targeted. Instead of fleeing to the states, Corchado investigated the threat and exposed the truth of his country, which saved his own life.

“Through my reporting and this book, I hope to put Mexico in a perspective in which, despite the drug cartels and brutal murders, people can see a rising nation in search of growth and progression,” said Corchado. “As a Mexican, I want to believe that the emerging democracy in Mexico is changing and that the people can find it within themselves to make real changes in their society.”

Born in Durango, México, Corchado grew up in both and . At a young age, Corchado moved to California to work with his parents as a migrant farmer for , a union lead by Mexican labor leader and civil rights activist . In 1994, Corchado moved to Mexico to work as a journalist, but soon learned that the country he once thought was changing was still plagued by corruption, inequality and injustice.

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Corchado was named a 2009 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, a 2010 Rockefeller Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Scholar. In 2007, he was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia Journalism School and in 2010, he received the Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for his exemplary journalism. In addition to his work for The Morning News, Corchado is a strong contributing voice for Al Dia, the award winning and leading Spanish-language newspaper in Texas. For both publications, Corchado writes about immigration, drug violence and foreign policy between the U.S. and Mexico.

Sponsored by The Morning News, the public is invited to hear this gripping story and meet Corchado at the following events as he discusses his unforgettable experience. A book signing of “Midnight in Mexico” will be held at all events with books available for purchase.

 May 30 at SMU Meadows Museum, John Goodwin Tower Center from 6 – 9 p.m.  May 31 at Klyde Warren Park, The Dallas Morning News Reading & Games Room from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.  June 1 at Warwick Melrose Hotel hosted by the World Affairs Council from 9 – 11 a.m.

To RSVP to a book signing and event, please visit www.dallasnews.com/midnight.

For more information on Alfredo Corchado and “Midnight in Mexico,” please visit, www.midnightinmexico.com. “Midnight in Mexico” is available for pre-order anywhere books are sold with a release date of May 30.

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