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We Were Always Here

A Mexican American’s Odyssey

By: Ricardo Chavira

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We Were Always Here

A Mexican American’s Odyssey

By: Ricardo Chavira

Ricardo Chavira was in Nicaragua on assignment for Time magazine in 1984, embedded with a group of Contra rebels, when the situation turned dire. A larger Sandinista patrol was in pursuit and he was reaching the end of his endurance after a fifteen-hour forced march. He had been with the rebels for six days and his feet were covered in blisters. On top of that, they were subsisting on minimal rations: a few mouthfuls of red beans and a couple of tortillas each day. Naively believing he could let the rebels go on without him, Chavira was shaken when told the Sandinistas would probably kill him. “I was no longer a neutral participant, but the quarry in a brutal war.” A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Ricardo Chavira writes in his memoir about the challenges growing up in a marginalized community in Pacoima, California, where he attended a high school notorious for gang violence and inadequate teaching. Against all the odds, he managed to reject gang affiliation, avoid serious crimes, evade the Vietnam War draft and earn undergraduate and graduate degrees. He became passionate about journalism because it gave him the chance to report about the lives of Latinos that mainstream American media either ignored or misrepresented. Chavira was one of the few Latinos working in the most elite newsrooms in the United States, covering natural disasters, including the 8.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Mexico City in 1985, and interviewing the likes of Mexican presidents Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Vicente Fox and Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega. Interspersing his journalistic adventures with his family’s history as Americans, Chavira examines his dual identities—Mexican and American—and their contribution to his success in navigating and reporting stories around the world.

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Arte Publico Press

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1518506488

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9781518506482

Introducci—n Hist—rica al Derecho Romano

By: Ricardo Chavira Villag—mez,Teresa Da Cunha Lopes

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Introducci—n Hist—rica al Derecho Romano

By: Ricardo Chavira Villag—mez,Teresa Da Cunha Lopes

El Estudio del Derecho romano y de las Instituciones políticas de Roma es indispensable para el cabal conocimiento del origen y evolución de Occidente.La cuna o matriz de la cultura Occidental es, junto con la Grecia, Roma. Es la República Romana la que conquista la Península Ibérica y la sustrae a la influencia del poder de Cartago. Es el Imperio el que unifica el status jurídico de los habitantes de la Península concediéndoles la ciudadanía romana. Es Roma la que, asimismo, unifica la cultura, absorbiendo a los distintos pueblos sujetos a su dominio (dentro de los cuales están los ibéricos o habitantes de las Hispanias); es igualmente Roma la que adopta el cristianismo como religión oficial y es Roma la que nos lega los principios de organización jurídica a través de su magno Derecho, base de la organización jurídica Europeo continental y de Iberoamérica.

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Lulu.com

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0557216559

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9780557216550

The Fight to Save Juárez

Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War

By: Ricardo C. Ainslie

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The Fight to Save Juárez

Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War

By: Ricardo C. Ainslie

“A deeply reported, razor smart, up-close account of the Great Drug War . . . Absolutely courageous in its fairness and search for answers.” —William Booth, Washington Post Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly twenty percent of the country’s drug-related executions have taken place in the city, a city that can be as unforgiving as the hardest places on earth. It is here that the Mexican government came to turn the tide. Whatever happens in Juárez will have lasting repercussions for both Mexico and the United States. Ricardo Ainslie went to Juárez to try to understand what was taking place behind the headlines of cartel executions and other acts of horrific brutality. In The Fight to Save Juárez, he takes us into the heart of Mexico’s bloodiest city through the lives of four people who experienced the drug war from very different perspectives—Mayor José Reyes Ferriz, a mid-level cartel player’s mistress, a human rights activist, and a photojournalist. Ainslie also interviewed top Mexican government strategists, including members of Calderón’s security cabinet, as well as individuals within US law enforcement. The dual perspective of life on the ground in the drug war and the “big picture” views of officials who are responsible for the war’s strategy, creates a powerful, intimate portrait of an embattled city, its people, and the efforts to rescue Juárez from the abyss.

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University of Texas Press

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029274871X

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9780292748712

We Were Always Here

A Mexican American’s Odyssey

By: Ricardo Chavira

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We Were Always Here

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