Ian Thomson

So far from God . . .

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico’s second largest border city, is clogged with rubbish, fouled with car exhaust and, increasingly, flooded with narcotics.

  • Amexica: War Along the Borderline

    Ed Vulliamy

    Bodley Head, pp. 336

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