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Pendant deux ans, Ed Vulliamy a enquêté le long de la frontière entre les Etats-Unis et le Mexique. Il a parcouru plus de 3000 kilomètres de l’océan Pacifique au golfe du Mexique le long d’une ligne qui est devenue l’un des endroits les plus dangereux du monde. Là règnent le crime organisé, les milices armées des cartels qui sont en concurrence et font régner la terreur au Mexique. Ligne de partage entre le Nord et le Sud, l’abondance matérielle et la pauvreté, la frontière est le lien du trafic des drogues et des armes que consomment les Etats-Unis et l’Europe, un trafic au poids économique sans équivalent sur la planète et qui fait chaque année plus de 5000 victimes. Chaque jour, près d’un million de personnes traversent cette frontière hautement sécurisée pour aller travailler dans les maquiladoras, ces "usines de la misère" où la mondialisation se révèle sous son visage le plus exécrable. Zone de non-droit également où la corruption sévit à tous les niveaux. Tout au long de ce voyage, Ed Vulliamy a rencontré de nombreux acteurs : mafieux, hommes politiques, policiers, prêtres et évêques, journalistes, travailleurs humanitaires ou sociaux, repentis et détenus. Autant de portraits et d’histoires personnelles dans cette plongée sidérante en enfer. Cette enquête aux allures de véritable roman noir évoque entre autres les films de Guillermo Arriaga, des frères Cohen ou d’Antonin Inarritu...

America is on a self-destruction road; failing to learn from history and allowing foreigners, most of whom are illegal unfettered access to American institutions. Previous empires have disappeared, so will America. Political correctness, lack of a common language, and a powerless military, coupled with politicians who are not statesmen, are all contributors to the inevitable decline. Newly arrived immigrants are not interested in blending into American society and in becoming Americans, learning the English language and "melting in." Whites will be a minority in America by 2050.Agenda driven self-serving organizations are destroying America from within. Both parties are to blame, they are operating with blinders to history, and they are bound to repeat it as America as we know it will cease to exist. It is the end of the "melting pot," morality, democracy and freedoms. Scary as it may be, the future is unfortunately inevitable and predictable from the US CENSUS BUREAU forecasts contained in the book.

The words come from different countries where English is spoken, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, South Africa, and others The author's website has received more than 1.2 million hits since its launch in 2004, and he is frequently interviewed about language in publications such as the New York Times

Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories write about theater. The plays analyzed in this study are representative of the most important Northern Border playwrights whose plays’ themes present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a socio-historical and political context. The most important themes observed include topics that engage in discussions of: the indigenous, Border crossings, heroes and folk saints, the city of Tijuana, and violence in the Borderlands, to name a few. These themes have led to the birth of the Teatro del Norte movement, a group of determined playwrights insistent on presenting dramaturgical themes that show the bond between their particular geographies, histories, socio-political and economic situations, thereby giving birth to an original voice and new aesthetic of representation. Dealing with the topics already mentioned, and pairing them with more timely ones like immigration reform, namely, this study can serve as an invaluable resource to many interdisciplinary academic settings, and can grant an eye-opening insight to Border relations through several critical readings.

Vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy.

UNDOCUMENTS is an expansive multi-genre exploration of Greater Mexican documentality that reveals the complicated ways all Latinx peoples, including the author, become objectified within cultures. John-Michael Rivera remixes the Florentine Codex and other documents as he takes an intense look at the anxieties and physical detriments tied to immigration.

This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation. Within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), academics have paid significant attention to both the police and military. The democratisation of intelligence structures that are at the very heart of authoritarian regimes, however, have been relatively ignored. The central aim of this book is to develop a conceptual framework for the specific analytical challenges posed by intelligence as a field of governance. Using examples from Latin America and Europe, it examines the impact of democracy promotion and how the economy, civil society, rule of law, crime, corruption and mass media affect the success or otherwise of achieving democratic control and oversight of intelligence. The volume draws on two main intellectual and political themes: intelligence studies, which is now developing rapidly from its original base in North America and UK; and democratisation studies of the changes taking place in former authoritarian regimes since the mid-1980s including security sector reform. The author concludes that, despite the limited success of democratisation, the dangers inherent in unchecked networks of state, corporate and para-state intelligence organisations demand that academic and policy research continue to meet the challenge. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, democracy studies, war and conflict studies, comparative politics and IR in general.

This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution. Mapping out media representations of the ongoing war on drugs in Mexico and the United States, the author delves into the social, cultural and geopolitical impacts of distribution and consumption of these media. With a particular emphasis on the globalized Mexican cartels, this book investigates three areas – gender and racial representation in film and television, the digital distribution of content through the internet and streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix, and depictions of extreme violence in film, television and online spaces – to identify whether there are fundamental similarities and differences in how Hollywood productions reproduce stereotypes about race, gender and extreme violence. Some of the movies and television series analysed are Breaking Bad, Ozark, Weeds, Rambo: Last Blood, No Country for Old Men, Sicario and the Netflix series Narcos, Narcos: Mexico and El Chapo. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of cartels in the media, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of media studies, film, television, security studies, Latin American and cultural studies.