[1] When the Reforma newspaper was founded in 1993, he joined as editor and columnist for both the regular paper and its cultural supplement, called El Ángel.

His series of articles served as the basis for the book Huesos en el desierto (Bones in the Desert), published in 2002, which mixes reporting, essay and reflective writing.

[2][10] As a screenwriter, he wrote for the television series México, Siglo XX, and a documentary called Nacional Dominical which he also directed with Roberto Diego Ortega.

González Rodríguez wrote The Femicide Machine specifically for the Intervention Series;[14] although it is a distinct text from the longer Huesos en el desierto, both books examine the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez.

The three works are examples of crónicas [es], the Spanish word for a genre of literary journalism which blends straight reporting and editorializing.

[a] In The Femicide Machine, González Rodríguez examines a series of circumstances which he argues have conspired to produce Ciudad Juárez' female homicide victims.

These factories provided employment opportunities for women; according to González Rodríguez, this provoked a misogynistic resentment in Mexico's culture of machismo.

On 26 September 2014, a group of male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College commandeered two local buses which they drove to nearby Iguala, where they took another three.

The central argument of the book is that the de facto absence of the rule of law is the root cause for ongoing violent crime and suffering within Mexico.

Given these circumstances, González Rodríguez uses the visual phenomenon of anamorphosis as a metaphor to describe the subjectively distorted reality experienced by victims of violent crime in Mexico who are often caught between police corruption, an inefficient legal system, and the violence of gangs or drug cartels.

The humanity of a person is objectified and reduced to their usefulness or uselessness for criminal activities, or to collateral damage on the part of the armed forces.

[e] In both cases the material covers the geopolitical interests of the United States via CIA operations within Mexico and Latin America, and the expansion of Mexican drug trafficking to Europe via West Africa.

[10][36] González Rodríguez' work was supported by grants from FONCA (1990–1991), two from the Rockefeller Foundation and from the history department of the Universidad Iberoamericana (1990–1999) .