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Cargando... Medianoche en México: El descenso de un periodista a las tinieblas de un país (Spanish Edition)por Alfredo Corchado
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The best line in the book belongs to Angela: "You have stopped being a reporter...you are part of the story now. You're so close now, you can't even divide the lines." This is such an interesting topic, but Corchado's made a gonzo-journalism, mixed format mess of it. It could have been a novel, a report, a memoir, or a history...instead it is all of those things and doesn't do any particularly well. You get a little about the history of Mexico, the border, Mexcian-American relations, Mexican food and music, the reporter's thoughts on his doomed relationship, family drama, and the beat reporter lifestyle...I can't rate lower because at times I enjoyed the perspective, but I can't rate higher because there's too much sense of a missed opportunity. Great Prose, Great History Corchado's prose is fantastic. It is succinct and very understandable. His descriptions of people and places ring true. He is an excellent writer, making it easy to fly through "Midnight in Mexico." This book follow the author, a veteran journalist, as he deals with a threat against his life for reporting about Mexico's drug war. In the midst of this main story, Corchado discusses life in two cultures, his love interest, his family, and poverty in Mexico. He also gives an excellent, albeit brief, history of the drug trade from Mexico to the United States. I would love to see Corchado write more about that history. There are two reasons for not giving this book five stars: 1) Corchado jumped the timeline a few times and I got lost, and 2) the jacket gave me the impression this book was a story about Corchado trying to dig up information for stories rather than dealing with himself as the story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Es medianoche en México, 2007. El periodista, Alfredo Corchado recibe una llamada telefónica de su fuente principal para informarle que hay un plan para asesinarlo por parte de un poderoso capo. Pronto averigua que lo quieren matar porque uno de sus artículos en el Dallas Morning News afectó los sobornos que los narcotraficantes entregan a policías, militares y funcionarios del gobierno mexicano. Así comienza el viaje en espiral de un hombre que busca descifrar la compleja situación del país mientras lucha por salvar su vida. A pesar de recorrer un camino de múltiples encrucijadas, desigualdad y violencia extrema, Corchado, "infectado con la enfermedad incurable del periodismo", no se resigna a abandonar la esperanza en tiempos turbulentos. Ahora el líder del brutal cártel que lo perseguía, el Z-40 está detenido, pero la historia no ha terminado de escribirse. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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