Drug trafficking in Mexico is a multibillion-dollar industry. In a country where the powerful are rarely scutinized, Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado did not shrink on reporting government corruption. One night he received a tip about an impending murder--his. He had twenty-four hours to find out if the tip was authentic and to save his own life.
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call number/section: 364.1
subjects: corchado, alfredo, drug traffic, mexico, organized crime, investigative reporting
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Corchado, Alfredo
A Dallas Morning News Mexican Bureau Chief who was the first reporter granted an interview with Mexico's first democratic president traces his 2007, 24-hour effort to end a threat against his own life by a paramilitary group that sought to prevent his investigations into Mexico's drug trafficking and government corruption.
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Corchado, Alfredo
Drug trafficking in Mexico is a multibillion-dollar industry. In a country where the powerful are rarely scutinized, Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado did not shrink on reporting government corruption. One night he received a tip about an impending murder--his. He had twenty-four hours to find out if the tip was authentic and to save his own life.
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