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Alberto Arce - Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World´s Deadliest Streets - 9781786990495 - V9781786990495
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Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World´s Deadliest Streets

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Description for Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World´s Deadliest Streets Paperback. A shocking account of the violence engulfing Honduras, from one of the few journalists to visit the country. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCH; 3JMG; DNJ; HBJK; JFFE; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction Features illustrations by the Honduran artist German Andino Welcome to a country that has a higher casualty rate than Iraq. Wander streets considered the deadliest in the world. Wake up each morning to another batch of corpses - sometimes bound, often mutilated - lining the roads; to the screeching blue light of police sirens and the huddles of `red journalists' who make a living chasing after the bloodshed. But Honduras is no warzone. Not officially, anyway. Ignored by the outside ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786990495
SKU
V9781786990495
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About Alberto Arce
Alberto Arce, joined the Associated Press (AP) in February 2012 as a correspondent in Honduras, where for several years he was the only foreign correspondent to report from Tegucigalpa. He later joined AP's Mexico City bureau and The New York Times. He is a 2018 Knight Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan. He won the 2012 Rory Peck award ... Read more

Reviews for Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World´s Deadliest Streets
'A brave, memorable book. One always hopes the pen will prove to be mightier than the gun, or the machete or the line of coke. In Honduras, I fear, one hopes in vain.' William Leith, Spectator 'Reminiscent of The Wire. Blood Barrios is full of perceptive vignettes, each of which shows how cocaine trafficking, and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World´s Deadliest Streets


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