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Our next book club selection is Joan Didion´s Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers (“the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it”), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In “Why I Write,” Didion ponders the act of writing: “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” From her admiration for Hemingway’s sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart’s story is one “that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men,” these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.

We’ll be meeting virtually on March 1st, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. via Google Meet.

This will be a virtual discussion, here is the link to the  meeting

Also, here is the link to purchase the book through our virtual shop

Let’s meet up and talk Literature.

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Nuestro club del libro en español vuelve a reunirse para hablar sobre La Tropa, por qué mata un soldado. Una propuesta pura y firme del papel del Ejército en las ejecuciones a personajes del crimen organizado y, lamentablemente, a hombres y mujeres inocentes.

Con una investigación que confronta la opinión de soldados, mandos medios y altos de la milicia, se ofrece el otro rostro de la muerte en la lucha contra el narcotráfico: los levantones, la extorsión creciente y el conflicto con huachicoleros. Los reporteros revelan en qué momento se rompe la línea entre la obediencia y el acto alevoso, por qué a pesar de las múltiples recomendaciones de derechos humanos se mantiene la tortura, la privación ilegal de la libertad, el asesinato artero, sin piedad ni averiguación.

Este libro, ganador del primer Premio Javier Valdez Cárdenas que reconoce el periodismo combativo, tiene también un rostro humano al descubrir las condiciones en las que viven soldados y víctimas, qué ofrecen las autoridades para evitar el abuso de poder y cómo la guerra contra el narcotráfico lo único que ha conseguido es que la violencia en todos los órdenes de la vida social haya crecido y cobrado más víctimas.

Este evento será via Zoom, accede a través de este link

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A work about the role of the armed forces in the executions of people within organized crimes and, unfortunately, in the executions of innocent men and women.

With an investigation that gathers information from soldiers, middle and high-ranking commanders of Mexico’s armed forces, the authors offer the other side of the fight against drug trafficking: ongoing kidnappings and disappearances, ever growing extortions, and the conflict with the “huachicoleros”, groups committed to the theft and illicit sale of motor fuel. These two journalists reveal at what point the line between obedience and treachery is crossed, and why despite the multiple recommendations from human rights organizations, people continue to be tortured, illegally denied of their freedom, and assassinated without any mercy or due process.

This book, winner of the first-ever Javier Valdez Cárdenas Award which acknowledges combative journalism, also has a human side and sheds a light on the conditions in which soldiers and victims live.

The conversation will be in Spanish language, follow the link above to join it.

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