Charles Bowden on "Murder City: Ciudad Ju�rez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields"

Charles Bowden on "Murder City: Ciudad Ju�rez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields":

oh man this is dark.

"And I think the war on drugs is ending, because, frankly, it’s no longer the darkness at the edge of town. I do stories all over this country. I don’t care where you go, the drugs are everywhere. I don’t care where you go, people are being arrested. I did a story in western North Dakota, county of—you know, got more people in this room maybe than the county. They busted eighty meth labs in a year. What are you going to say, that these are, you know, the lesser breed or something? I mean, these are a bunch of people that look like potatoes that plow fields. That’s what our war on drugs has come to. We’re killing ourselves with our war. We’re not helping anyone."