Delve Deeper into Kingdom of Shadows A film by Bernardo Ruiz This list of fiction and government and media government corruption, the nonfiction books, compiled portrayals of the unprecedented lives of immigrants in the United by Robert Surratt of The San wave of violence and looks to States, and the battles of the Diego Public Library provides the people of Mexico for Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas. a range of perspectives on solutions to the crisis now the issues raised by the POV pushing Mexico to the breaking ADULT FICTION documentary Kingdom of point. Shadows. Blake, James Carlos. The Grillo, Ioan. Gangster Rules of the Wolfe. New In Kingdom of Shadows, Warlords: Drug Dollars, York, NY: The Mysterious Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Killing Fields, and the New Press, 2013. Eddie Gato Wolfe Bernardo Ruiz takes an Politics of Latin America. is a young, impetuous member unflinching look at the hard New York, NY: Bloomsbury of the Wolfe family of Texas choices and destructive Press, 2016. A new kind of gun-runners that goes back consequences of the U.S.- criminal kingpin has arisen: part generations. Increasingly Mexico drug war. Weaving CEO, part terrorist, and part unfulfilled by his minor role in together the stories of a U.S. rock star, unleashing guerrilla family operations and eager to drug enforcement agent on the attacks, strong-arming set out on his own, Eddie border, an activist nun in governments, and taking over crosses the border to work violence-scarred Monterrey, much of the world's trade in security for a major Mexican Mexico, and a former Texas narcotics, guns, and humans. drug cartel led by the ruthless smuggler, the film reveals the What they do affects you now-- La Navaja. Eddie falls for a human side of an often- from the gas in your car, to the mysterious woman named misunderstood conflict. The gold in your jewelry, to the tens Miranda, whom he learns too distinct but interlocking of thousands of Latin Americans late is the property of an experiences of these three calling for refugee status in the intimate member of La Navaja’s individuals expose the dark U.S. organization. When their corners of a human-rights crisis romance is discovered, Eddie that has yet to be fully revealed. Rodríguez, Teresa. The and Miranda are forced to run Daughters of Juarez: A True for their lives, fleeing into the ADULT NONFICTION Story of Serial Murder South deadly Sonora Desert in hope of of the Border. New York, NY: crossing the border to safety. Corchado, Alfredo. Midnight Atria Books, 2007. For more in Mexico: A Reporter’s than twelve years, the city of Fuentes, Carlos. Destiny and Journey Through a Country’s Juárez, Mexico—just across the Desire. New York, NY: Decent into Darkness. New Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas Random House, 2011. Josué York, NY: The Penguin Press, —has been the center of an Nadal has lost more than his 2013. In the last decade, more epidemic of horrific crimes innocence: He has been robbed than 100,000 people have been against women and girls. of his life—and his posthumous killed in the Mexican drug war, Consisting of kidnappings, rape, narration sets the tone for a and drug trafficking there is a mutilation, and murder, most of brilliantly written novel that multibillion-dollar business. In a the atrocities have involved blends mysticism and realism. country where the powerful are young, slender, and poor Josué tells of his fateful meeting rarely scrutinized, noted victims—fueling the premise as a skinny, awkward teen with Mexican American journalist that the murders are not Jericó, the vigorous boy who will Alfredo Corchado refuses to random. become his twin, his best friend, shrink from reporting on and his shadow. Both orphans, government corruption, murders Wald, Elijah. Narcocoriddo: A the two young men intend to in Juarez, or the ruthless drug Journey into the Music of spend their lives in intellectual cartels. Drugs, Guns, and Guerillas. pursuit—until they enter an New York, NY: Rayo, 2001. adult landscape of sex, crime, Gibler, John. To Die In From international superstars to and ambition that will test their Mexico: Dispatches from rural singers documenting their pledge and alter their lives Inside the Drug War. San local current events in the forever. Francisco, CA: City Lights, regions dominated by guerilla 2011. Combining on-the- war, Wald visited these Hawkins, Sam. Tequila ground reporting and in-depth songwriters in their homes, Sunset. London: Serpent’s discussions with people on the exploring the heartland of the Tail, 2013. In Tequila Sunset, frontlines of Mexico's drug war, Mexican drug traffic and three people are confronted by To Die in Mexico tells behind the traveling to urban centers such Los Aztecas' ruthless power: a scenes stories that address the as Los Angeles and Mexico City. reluctant gang member, an El causes and consequences of The corrido genre is famous for Paso police officer, and a Mexico's multibillion-dollar drug- its hard-bitten songs of drug Mexican federal agent. As their trafficking business. John Gibler traffickers and gunfights, and paths cross with the gang and looks beyond the cops-and- also functions as a sort of each other, they all become robbers myths that pervade musical newspaper, singing of involved in a complex struggle Delve Deeper into Kingdom of Shadows A film by Bernardo Ruiz between law and crime, violence difficulties in her native joyous, and illustrator Cepeda and order, and ultimately, life Honduras, migrated to the offers several tender scenes and death. 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This series provides an changes. most powerful cartel, and the insight into the lives and daily man who brutally murdered heroisms of the many hundreds Hobbs, Will. Crossing the Keller’s partner. Finally putting of thousands of men and Wire. New York, NY: Harper Barrera away cost Keller women who work to make North Collins, 2006. When falling dearly—the woman he loves, America a safe country, both crop prices threaten his family the beliefs he cherishes, the life now and for the future. with starvation, fifteen-year-old he wants to lead. Then Barrera Victor Flores heads north in an gets out, determined to rebuild Watkins, Christi. How Can attempt to "cross the wire" from the empire that Keller Gang Violence Be Prevented? Mexico into the United States so shattered. Unwilling to live in a Farmington Hills, MI: he can find work and send world with Barrera in it, Keller Greenhaven Press, 2007. money home. But with no goes on a ten-year odyssey to Books in this anthology series coyote money to pay the take him down. focus a wide range of viewpoints smugglers who sneak illegal onto a single controversial workers across the border, NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER issue, providing in-depth Victor must struggle to survive READERS discussions by leading as he jumps trains, stows away advocates. Articles are printed on trucks, and hikes grueling Foster, Lynn V. A Brief in their entirety and footnotes miles through the Arizona History of Mexico. New York, and source notes are retained. desert. NY: Facts on File, 2009. From These books offer the reader the rise of the first civilizations not only a full spectrum of of North America and continuing dissent on the subject, but also Hough, Robert. Diego’s through the cataclysm of the the ability to test the validity of Crossing. Toronto, ON: Spanish conquest and the arguments by following up on Annick Press, 2015. A young explosive revolution of Emiliano sources used as evidence. man is on a dangerous mission Zapata and Pancho Villa to the that will secure his future … or leave him dead.