The Savior of Juaréz: México at the Time of the Great Drug War (in press)
While America preoccupies itself with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mexico, America’s third most important trading partner and a country with whom the US shares a 2,000-mile border, hangs by a thread. In The Savior of Juaréz, Ricardo Ainslie will argue that America’s greatest national security threat lies just across the southern border, in a country that is in the midst of a fight for its very survival. The Savior of Juaréz explores Mexico’s war against the drug cartels and the implications of this campaign for Mexico and the United States. The focus of the book is Ciudad Juarez, epicenter of Mexico’s war against organized crime, where thousands have died and where 25% of the Mexican government’s forces fighting this war are deployed. The book reveals an intimate portrait of a city caught in the crossfire, where no one can escape the extraordinary violence that is taking place.