JUAREZ the laboratory of our future – Charles Bowden

Published by Aperture – 1998 – USA
21 x 29 cm – 131 pages – Hardcover

Preface by Noam Chomsky

Filled with dozens of dramatic and disturbing images of everyday violence against the people of Juarez and against the land itself, Bowden’s book acts, in Kafka’s words, as an ax to break up the frozen sea within us. — The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Saul Landau

Focuses on relations between the border towns of Juarez and El Paso to illuminate relations in general between Mexico and US, challenging media and government proclamations of milk and honey. Vivid and often gruesome images created by anonymous street photographers accompany descriptions of impoverished urban settlements, workers in foreign- owned factories, victims of drug and gang violence, the hardships of women and children, and other aspects of daily life for all but the privileged few.