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awful, the horror of self publishing! Aug 16, 2011
By Miguel Delgadillo
"Chicano Nationalist"
I am intrigued by the "Santa Muerte" phenomena so I read this book. It's awful. A flimsy, semi-plausible plot that is bogged down w/ too many cliched characters. Yet cliches aren't the problem here. The reality, the desperation of reality outweighs any fictionalized attempt at this story. Hundreds of women are killed every year in the border town of Juarez Mexico; the phantasm "Santa Muerte" is blamed for the deaths. Plausible story line even though the more credible explanation is simply man's-inhumanity-to-man. If you analyze the numbers of women's murders in Juarez it really is not so shocking. Many big cities have a large murder rate, Mexico is not known for being a soiciety that respects nor values women, Juarez is a border town in flux; what's so surprising about women being killed?
The book is a few years old. Witness today's level of naked drug violence and trying to highlight crimes against women is almost gratuitous. Today as I write this review, (August 2011) in parts of Mexico no one is immune from shocking acts of violence; not even tourists. I've travelled all over Mexico, fluent in Spanish, w/ family throughout the land, the myth of "Santa Muerte" is no more frightening than reality.
This print-on-demand book needed editing and was denied. I believe in freedom of the press, like any good American born in the 1960's, but that doesn't mean every opinion needs to be heard.
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