The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Jurez

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Sandra Rodrguez Nieto was an investigative reporter for the daily newspaper El Diario de Jurez for nearly a decade. Despite tremendous danger and the assassination of one of her closest colleagues, she persisted. She didnt want the story of her city told solely by foreign reporters, because, in her words, I know what is underneath the violence. This book traces the rise of a national culture of murder and bloody retribution, and is a testament to the extraordinary bravery of its author. Among other things, The Story of Vicente is an account of how poverty, political corruption, failing government institutions and US meddling combined to create an explosion of violence in Jurez.

Reviews

As crime-beat reporter for the local paper (a job that cost her closest colleague his life), Sandra Rodrguez lives and narrates the brutalization of her city, Ciudad Jurez, at a range so close and raw it is painful to read. Yet this book-on intimate terms with Mexico's narco-carnage, and from under its skin-draws us irretrievably into an abyss we need to know; this is the masterpiece of reportage from the murder capital of the world. -- Ed Vulliamy, author of Amexica: War Along the Borderline
Sandra Rodrguez is a reporter the corrupt want to keep at a distance. Untiring, exhaustive, intelligent. This is the only kind of reporter who could turn a case like that of Vicente, a child-murderer, into a story about the world of the mafia and the impunity of violence that reigns in Ciudad Jurez and in Mexico. If you want to understand Jurez, you have to read Sandra. -- scar Martnez, author of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

Author Bio

SANDRA RODRGUEZ NIETO is an investigative reporter, and has won multiple accolades for her work. She was a Harvard University Nieman Fellow in 2014. She now reports for Sin Embargo.