Charles Bowden on Writing ”VIDEO”

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Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr

To speak for those who can’t

Charles Bowden passed away this year at the age of 69. He wrote about drug wars, immigration, and Mexico. “His best-known book, “Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family,” published in 2002, is a blend of biography, history, narrative journalism and essayistic expression that spins outward from a single, seemingly unremarkable crime along the Rio Grande: the murder of a man who had no apparent involvement in the border conflict but turns out to have been the brother of an official at the Drug Enforcement Agency.”