Watch Charles Bowden on DN! "Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields"
"These
Mexicans are coming north because NAFTA in good parts destroy their
economic base in Mexico. You’re not going have a peaceful world if
you’re making war on the poor."
Watch our 2010 interview with late author and reporter Charles Bowden.
Author and investigative reporter Charles Bowden died Saturday at his
home in Arizona at the age of 69. Watch one of our most recent
interviews with him in April 2010, when he had just published "Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields."
Bowden reported extensively for newspapers and magazines, and
authored 11 books, many about drug violence in Mexico after the passage
of NAFTA. In 1998 he wrote "Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future," with a preface by Noam Chomsky, an afterword by Eduardo Galeano, and graphic images taken by Mexican photographers.
Many journalists admired Bowden’s prose and dedication to the craft. Cartoonist Max Cannon told The Tucson Sentinel:
"He lived on his own terms to the extreme — he was a master wordsmith, a
detective, a poet, a scholar, a gentleman rogue, and a fearless
traveler into humanity’s darkest places."
