Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez

by Howard Campbell

Book Overview

Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2011

Thousands of people die in drug-related violence every year in Mexico. Ciudad Ju?rez, Chihuahua, adjacent to El Paso, Texas, has become the most violent city in the Mexican drug war. Much of the cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine consumed in the United States is imported across the Mexican border, making El Paso/Ju?rez one of the major drug-trafficking venues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029272179X
• ISBN13: 9780292721791
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"