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  • Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland

  • A History
  • By: Mike Tapia
  • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
  • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland

By: Mike Tapia
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
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Publisher's summary

This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Juárez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. From the badlands - the historically notorious eastern Valle de Juárez - to the Puerto Palomas port of entry at Columbus, New Mexico, this area has become more militarized and politicized than ever before. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

Tapia looks extensively at the role of history and geography on criminal subculture formation in the binational urban setting of El Paso-Juárez, demonstrating the region's unique context for criminogenic processes. He provides a poignant case study of Homeland Security and the apparent lack of drug-war spillover in communities on the US-Mexico border.

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it was ok

I'm not sure what I was expecting when I picked this one. As an El Paso native I did like learning more about local history. I felt not enough time was devoted to the El Paso Juarez area as the book suggests. The narrator was really not to my liking. His pronunciation of some of the Spanish last names just got distracting when repeatedly done incorrectly. Tapia, is a last name that comes up often. and every time it is mispronounced it's like nails to a chalkboard.

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Not the specifics I was expecting

Too many references. So and so 1956 and so an so 1986. Interruptions with references broke it up too much.

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