MEXICO - Reflection on Violence in the Book "Midnight in Mexico"

"Reporter Offers Reflection on Violence and Resilience in His Tale of Two Mexicos" PBS Newshour 7/15/2013

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MARGARET WARNER (Newshour):  Mexico is a country of riches and promise, now the second fastest-growing economy in Latin America, yet it is plagued by violence and corruption fueled by the drug trade that has killed some 80,000 people in the past decade.

A new book by Dallas Morning News correspondent Alfredo Corchado seeks to understand why.  Corchado was brought to the United States as a small boy, yet in 1994, he felt drawn to return to Mexico as a journalist.  His new book, "Midnight in Mexico:  A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent Into Darkness," draws on his nearly 20 years of reporting there, and on his personal relationship with his birth land.

Alfredo Corchado joins me now.