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Down by the River
Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money. Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. It is the story of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U.S. government, of how major financial institutions were fattened on the drug industry, and how the governments of the U.S. and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this happens down by the river, where the public fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is a remarkable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family.
The Invincible
This book is a beautiful memoir written by poet and professor Vicente Quirarte (Mexico City). It was translated from Spanish by Elvia Ardalani.
Code of Federal Regulations
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
Ritual and Power in Stone
The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful a...
The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions
Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves. The mission churches, once beautifully adorned with carvings and sculptures on their façades and furnished inside with elaborate altarpieces and paintings, today only hint at their colonial-era glory through the vestiges of art and architectural decoration that remain. To paint a more complete portrait of...
Amor de ciudad grande / Love of a Big City
Big City Love is a journey through Mexico City through time and the people who have lived, visited or written about it, from its origins as a refuge for the Spanish people, until its transformation into one of the largest cities in the world. Vicente Quirarte offers with this book a portrait of the city, represented as a character that comes to life with the constant activity and renovation of its inhabitants.A walk through its streets, buildings and monuments gives a glimpse of the essence of the city to the viewer, at times chaotic but always enigmatic, making the task to distinguish between love and hate even more difficult that a place such as Mexico City may provoke. From the perspective of acclaimed writers, both Mexican and foreign, ranging from Cervantes to Elena Poniatowska, Quirarte manages to reconstruct the identity of a city that is constantly moving, and yet has no clear direction.
