. >>> from the texas book festival and austin howard campbell talks about the drug war in the border towns of el paso, texas and juarez, professor campbell collected testimony from drug traffickers and lock law enforcement officials. this event is 45 minutes. >> okay. i want to read a brief statement about the mexican drug war and then we will talk about my book. the mexican drug war is a tragedy more than 14,000 people have died since 2006 when president calderon took office and also 23,000 people had been kidnapped since that time. this is the worst violence in mexico since the revolution. the such violence included decapitation and unspeakable torture. juarez has been the hardest hit and i think it is one of the most dangerous cities in the world for murdered and kidnapped. 3700 people have been murdered juarez since january, 2008. 2100 fight this year alone compared to ten in el paso. think about that, 2100 juarez this year died and just ten and el paso. my daughter, my oldest daughter goes to el paso high school. 12 of her classmates have had relatives murdered in juarez this ye

from the texas book festival in austin, howard campbell talks about the drug war in the border townsof el paso, texas, and juarez mexo. . .

[applause] >> howard campbell is a professor of anthropology at the university of texas at el paso. the co-editor of the university of kansas press enter america series. for more information visit utp.edu. >> we are in section 27 of arlington national cemetery. this is one of the oldest sections of the military cemetery at arlington. and it's worth the story of arlington national cemetery really begins. arlington has so much history tied up in the civil war. this section of the cemetery was begun in may, 1864. really before there was a cemetery. how did that happen? it happened that 1 going on for several years, and washington was really a hospital city at that time. there were as many as 50000 soldiers and sailors in the hospitals in washingtwashington, temporary hospitals set up all over town. and of course, those people started dying. and they had to be buried. so earlier in the war, the national cemeteries were established at alexandria, virginia, and at the old soldiers home in northwest washington. they were planned to accommodate all those who died in the washington area hosp