Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.

John Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in MexicoMexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (City Lights, 2009), To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War (City Lights, 2011), 20 poemas para ser leídos en una balacera (Sur+, 2012), and Tzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero (Tusquets, 2014). He has collaborated with Democracy Now!, Z Magazine, Left Turn, Earth Island Journal, NACLA Report on the Americas, Salamander, Zyzzyva, California Sunday Magazine, Periodistas de a Pie, NPR's All Things Considered, and others.

Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author whose plays (among them, Death and the Maiden), have been performed in over one hundred countries and his numerous books (novels, stories, poems, essays) have been translated into more than sixty languages. Accompanied by his wife Angélica, Ariel divides his time between Chile and the United States, where he is professor emeritus of literature at Duke University. A regular contributor to the most important newspapers worldwide, he will soon publish a new novel, Darwin¿s Ghosts.

Contents

Prologue

Maps

An Oral History of Infamy

Names of the Wounded, Murdered and Disappeared

Afterword

Acknowledgments

About the Author