Book description
In the last three years more than 38,000 people have been murdered in
Amexica - the area of land that forms the border between the US and
Mexico. This is both the busiest and most deadly frontier in the
world, studded with guard-posts, infra-red searchlights and heavily
armed patrols. Across it unfolds a war that is scarcely reported - a
war that's being fought, with thousands dying and millions of lives
blighted, so that Europe and America can get high.
In Amexica, acclaimed journalist Ed Vulliamy explores his own
love-hate relationship with the place and its people, while
investigating the causes and consequences of the war and its impact on
the everyday life which somehow carries on around it.
Ed Vulliamy is a journalist and writes for the Guardian and
Observer. For his work in Bosnia, Italy, the US and Iraq he has
won a James Cameron Award and an Amnesty International Media Award and
has been named International Reporter of the Year (twice) and
runner-up at the Foreign Press Association Awards. In 1996 he became
the first journalist to ever testify at an international crimes court,
at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia. A
believer in the duty of journalists to testify in matters of
humanitarian law, he has since lectured extensively on the subject.
Twitter: @edvilliamy. com
