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One title we think Dig listeners will like is A History of Infamy, Crime, truth, and justice in Mexico by Pablo Picato.

A history of infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth, in mid-20th century

Mexico.

Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial

system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions.

During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished.

Civil society search for truth and justice led paradoxically to the normalization of

extra judicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Picato

demonstrates ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment

central concerns of the public sphere during the last century. This book offers

critical historical context for readers who want to understand how the Mexican state and society

respond to violence as today's drug war unleashes horrific bloodshed nationwide.

A history of infamy, crime, truth, and justice in Mexico by Pablo Picato, out now from

University of California Press. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackopin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

With Trump, Mexico is the symbol of so many things that are wrong with the United States.

And, more to the point their

source. Concretely he has actually suggested that the Mexican government has

out-smarted the US by purposefully sending its least desirable citizens, criminals,

and offloading them across the border.

Trump's racist absurdities, however, draw from a long history of American ignorance about and bigotries toward Mexico and Mexicans.

Blank canvases upon which all manner of nightmares, insecurities, and dreads about jobs, drugs, security, in in the United States aren't just wrong, but also serve to obscure the true source of our shared problems.

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