02034cam a2200301 i 4500 545747742 TxAuBib 040212s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004541201 9780743244572 pbk. 0743244575 pbk. DLC DLC DLC rda TxAuBib rda Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014. Down by the river : drugs, money, murder, and family / Charles Bowden. First Simon & Schuster paperback edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004. 448 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-434) and index. Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments--one called the United States and the other Mexico--and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money. Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. It is the story of how one Mexican drug leader out fought and out thought the U.S. government, of how major financial institutions were fattened on the drug industry, and how the governments of the U.S. and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this happens down by the river, where the public fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is a remarkable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family. Drug traffic Mexican-American Border Region. Drug abuse and crime Mexican-American Border Region. Homicide Mexican-American Border Region. Drug control Mexican-American Border Region. Nonfiction.