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A carregar... The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's Central Valley (edição 2020)por Jessica Garrison (Autor)
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"In the tradition of authors Jill Leovy and Beth Macy, award-winning Buzzfeed investigative journalist Jessica Garrison unravels the real-life story of Jose Martinez, a serial killer and drug cartel debt collector responsible for the murders of Latinos in the impoverished towns of California's Central Valley, and sheds light on the lack of protection for the poor THE DEVIL'S HARVEST tells the story of Jose Martinez, a ruthless drug cartel hitman who ravaged California's Central Valley with murder after murder while their police forces did nothing. Widely known as a loving father and devoted son, he was also a merciless murderer and responsible for numerous kidnappings and illegal shipments of drugs and weapons. Though he painted himself as a modern Robin Hood, his victims' families and the larger community suffered immensely during his 35-year reign of terror. In the end, Martinez was only caught because he confessed to the authorities in order to spare his family from increasing law enforcement pressure; otherwise, he could have gotten away with it, because as he said, he was "so damn good" at killing. How was Martinez able to kill with such impunity? Because instinctively, Martinez understood a dark truth about the criminal justice system: if you kill the right people-people who are poor, who are not white, who are often presumed to be criminals, and who don't have anyone to speak up for them-nobody tries that hard to catch you. Combining the pacing and suspense of a crime thriller with the reporting rigor and depth of an award-winning investigative journalist, THE DEVIL'S HARVEST presses upon moral questions haunting our politically divided country: why do some deaths-and some lives-matter more than others?"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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His first killing was a man who he had been told raped a woman, although nothing ever proved it. He also shot a man for parking in his driveway and yet another for calling his eldest daughter a B****. He made money by contact killings, delivering drugs, threatening people, and taking people to and from Mexico. Yet, he had his family fooled the whole time, being a nice, giving family member and giving away the money he had made doing his terrible deeds. It's almost like he considered himself the Robin Hood, although he went by the nickname of El Mano Negra, "The Black Hand".
Now other parts of the book were interesting don't get me wrong, but they really didn't tie in with the story so when I read the working conditions of the farmworkers in Central Valley, how they were sprayed with pesticides, how they had little to no help from the police, how they did not have clean drinking water, I was a little disappointed. I found myself feeling sorry for them, but I was more interested in reading about Martinez.
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