Essays on Life Amid the Narco-violence Cortez, Sarah editor. Troncoso, Sergio 1961- editor. text Electronic books. txu 2013 monographic eng spa spa 1 online resource. This anthology combines writings about the impact of drug violence on life and culture along the U.S.-Mexico border. It reveals how this fragile way of life between two cultures, languages, and countries, has been undermined by the drug trade and the crime that accompanies it, with ramifications far beyond the border region. The Tortured Landscape: La frontera más ancha = The widest of borders / Liliana V. Blum -- La guerra, nosotros, la paz = The war, us, the peace / Lolita Bosch -- La batalla de Ciudad Mier = The battle for Ciudad Mier / Diego Osorno -- Espejos, fantasmas y violencia en Ciudad Juárez = Mirrors, ghosts and violence in Ciudad Juárez / María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba. The Personal Stories: Selling Tita's house / Maria Cristina Cigarroa -- Across the river / Sarah Cortez -- There's always music / Celestino Fernández and Jessie K. Finch -- My Tijuana lost / Richard Mora -- The bridge to an alien nation / Paul Pedroza -- Sucking the sweet / José Antonio Rodríguez -- The Sicario in the salon / José Skinner -- A world between two worlds / Sergio Troncoso. edited by Sarah Cortez and Sergio Troncoso. English and Spanish. n-us--- n-mx--- Mexican-American Border Region Civilization Drug traffic Mexican-American Border Region Violent crimes Mexican-American Border Region F787 ebook 972.1 Houston, TX : Arte Público Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012043780 (OCoLC)814455294 9781611925210 1611925215 https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/38180/ https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/38180/ DGITA 170307 DIGARTEP0192 eng