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The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the 17th century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues - outcasts and fortune seekers all. In They're Cows, We're Pigs, acclaimed Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa animates this world of bloody chaos and uncertain possibility through the eyes of the young Jean Smeeks, kidnapped in Flanders at age 13 and sold into indentured servitude on Tortuga, the mythical Treasure Island.

The term Mexican Drug War misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the US role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from and sell weapons to Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the US prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer - with increasingly deadly consequences.

"Questo è ciò che succederà a chiunque non capisca, il messaggio è destinato a tutti". Ecco un minaccioso narcomanta, poche parole su un lenzuolo insanguinato, in una storia di giornalisti trucidati, cadaveri decapitati, horrorismo, scontri a fuoco e massacri: se tutto questo vi attira significa che la necropolitica funziona e in questo audiobook è spiegato perché.