READING WITH LAS COMADRES
For Hispanic
Heritage Month A
Gift to You from Las Comadres Para Las Americas in
partnership with the
American Association of Publishers,
http://www.publishers.org
Publishing
Latino Voices of the Americas
The
Second Teleconference in our
"Reading with
Las Comadres" Author's Teleconference Series
Tuesday,
October 23, 2007
8:00pm
Eastern Time, 7:00pm Central Time, 6:00pm Mountain Time,
5:00pm Pacific Time
Join
Stephanie Elizondo Griest and
comadres around the
nation on October 23, as she interviews author
Teresa
Rodriguez co-author
of
The
Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder
South of the Border
published
by Altria Books
Free
books have been given away...no more available! ! First 30
to register will receive a free copy courtesy of the publisher
and you are expected to participate in the teleconference.
Teresa Rodriguez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist
at Univision, the leading Spanish-language network
in the United States, where she is the main cohost and correspondent
for Univision’s prime-time award-winning newsmagazine
program Aquí y Ahora. She has investigated
and reported on the Juárez murders for more than ten
years. The book is co-authored by Diana Montané with Lisa
Pulitzer
Diana Montané is an associate editor at Nueva
magazine as well as a writer, journalist, and playwright.
She is based in Ormond Beach, Florida.
Liza Pulitzer is a former correspondent for The
New York Times and bestselling author of five true crime
books, including Fatal Romance and Murder in Paradise.
.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest’s first book, Around
the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing and Havana ,
established her as an adventurous traveler and travel writer.
The New York Times Book Review recommended the book
for summer reading, and the San Francisco Chronicle
named it one of the best books of the year. She is a freelance
journalist with articles in many well-known newspapers and
magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post,
Latina Magazine, and other journals.
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ever wanted to know how an author writes a book? Where she
gets her ideas? Who or what is her inspiration? What she hoping
to accomplish? Now you can have these and other questions
answered in the Reading with Las Comadres LIVE Teleconference
Series!
Each month comadre guest interviewers (announced monthly),
will interview a comadre author, whose latest book has just
been released in a teleconference. Don't wait to sign-up because
the first 30 to register will receive
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WILL BE EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TELECONFERENCE, IF
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of theevent, just phone in and listen to the interview! You
may send questions to the author via Nora Comstock until two
days prior to the teleconference.
Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just
across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans
are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has
been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against
women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation,
and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific
profile: young, slender, and poor, fueling the premise that
the murders are not random.
Indeed, there has been much speculation that the killer or
killers are American citizens. While some leading members
of the American media have reported on the situation, prompting
the U.S. government to send in top criminal profilers from
the FBI, little real information about this international
atrocity has emerged. According to Amnesty International,
as of 2006 more than 400 bodies have been recovered, with
hundreds still missing.
As for who is behind the murders themselves, the answer remains
unknown, although many have argued that the killings have
become a sort of blood sport, due to the lawlessness of the
city itself. Among the theories being considered are illegal
trafficking in human organs, ritualistic satanic sacrifices,
copycat killers, and a conspiracy between members of the powerful
Juárez drug cartel and some corrupt Mexican officials
who have turned a blind eye to the felonies, all the while
lining their pockets with money drenched in blood.
Despite numerous arrests over the last ten years, the murders
continue to occur, with the killers growing bolder, dumping
bodies in the city itself rather than on the outskirts of
town, as was initially the case, indicating a possible growing
and most alarming alliance of silence and cover-up by Mexican
politicians.
The Daughters of Juárez promises to
be the first eye-opening, authoritative nonfiction work of
its kind to examine the brutal killings and draw attention
to these atrocities on the border. The end result will shock
readers and become required reading on the subject for years
to come.
