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"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
10) Disappeared
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Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
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English
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A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller-soon to be a major motion picture from Sony-chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo-the world's most wanted drug kingpin who evaded the law for more than a decade.
Every generation...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade that reveals how an industry founded by farmers and village healers became dominated by cartels and kingpins. The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real...
14) Miss Bala
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico's increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nightclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order to keep her dreams, and her family, alive"--Container.
15) Heli
Publisher
Gussi Cinema
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Love story between a young girl and a seventeen-year old boy, both of whom had connections with drugs but in opposite ways. This creates a conflict for her family and death for some.
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Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Since 2006, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado continues to report on government corruption, murders in Juarez, and the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. In 2007, Corchado received a tip that he could be their next target. Rather than leave his country, Corchado went out into the Mexican countryside to...
17) Todo el poder
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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
A comedy-thriller about crime in Mexico City and its effects on the city's inhabitants. A filmmaker finds himself the victim of crime and violence as frequently as three times a day.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juárez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile--young, slender, and poor. Speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens has led the U.S. government to send in criminal profilers from the FBI, but little real information about this international...
19) Miss Bala
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Contains French descriptive video.
20) El Paso
Publisher
Alfhaville Cinema
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Journalists are being murdered in Mexico, which has become one of the most dangerous countries for this profession. El Paso follows two Mexican journalists exiled to the city of El Paso, Texas, and the human rights lawyer who advocates for their safety. Directed by Everardo González -- who after a handful of critically lauded documentaries has earned a reputation as one of Mexico's preeminent documentary journalists -- El Paso focuses on the story...
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