Midnight in Mexico A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
Midnight in Mexico A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
- ISBN 13:
9781594204395
- ISBN 10:
159420439X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/30/2013
- Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
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Summary
Rather than leave his country, Corchado goes out into the Mexican countryside to trace investigate the threat. As he frantically contacts his sources, Corchado suspects the threat is his punishment for returning to Mexico against his mother’s wishes. His parents had fled north after the death of their young daughter and they raised their
children in the California field where they labored as migrant workers. Corchado returned to Mexico as a journalist in 1994, convinced that Mexico would one day foster political accountability and leave behind the pervasive corruption that has plagued its people for decades.
But in this land of extremes, the gap of inequality—and injustice—remains wide. Even after the 2000 election that put Mexico’s opposition party in power for the first time, the opportunities of democracy did not materialize. The powerful PRI had worked with the cartels, taking a piece of their profit in exchange for a more peaceful, and more controlled, drug trade. But the party’s long-awaited defeat created a vacuum of power in Mexico City, and in the cartel-controlled states that border the United States. The cartels went to war with one another in the mid-2000s, during the war to regain control of the country instituted by President Felipe Calderón, and only the violence flourished. The work Corchado lives for could kill him, but he’s not ready to leave Mexico—not yet, maybe never. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man’s quest to report the truth of his country—as he races to save his own life.