No country for young women
Cataclysmic conflicts in impoverished, far off countries tend to receive minimal coverage in the First World media unless they either directly affect western interests or have an easily-simplified human interest angle.
The Dead Women of Juárez
By Sam Hawken
Serpent’s Tail, €13.85
Cataclysmic conflicts in impoverished, far off countries tend to receive minimal coverage in the First World media unless they either directly affect western interests or have an easily-simplified human interest angle.
Ask any Algerian, Azeri or Congolese person for proof. But after almost 35,000 deaths, the Mexican Drug War has reached such a pitch of barbarity that it is now finally receiving ...
