Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future

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Summary: All of Bowden's books are wake up calls. One of his best.
Review: We, as a society, ignore too much, and are far to isolated as to what the rest of the world is like. We surround ourself with junk, the media feels that Bill Clinton's sex life is what we need to know about, and people fight over bean bag toys. Yet just to the south of our decaying scciety is a place where people, at times, will do anything to either A) live in the US B) Kill each other for a handful of dollars. The images presented in this book are stark and real. The photos are not "titillating", but are harsh, and they are pushed in your face. Bowden's text is superb, and presents mind images that equal or surpass the work of the photographers. Books like this should be required reading for the fools that think NAFTA et al, are good for the world.