Recently added articles from The Virginia Quarterly Review:
Are We Losing the War on Drugs?
Oct 01, 2009; ... UNTIL RECENTLY, the Mexican drug cartels maintained a neat market division. The Tijuana Cartel dominated smuggling routes into Southern California; the Sinaloa Cartel controlled routes into Tucson and Phoenix, the Juárez Cartel ran into El Paso and New Mexico, and the Gulf Cartel trafficked up ...
The Crazy Place
Oct 01, 2009; ... Miss Sinaloa came to this place in the desert to live with the other crazy people under the giant white horse. She did not belong, but then neither did the caballo. The horse stretches over half a mile in length, sketched onto the Sierra de Juárez with whitewash by a local architect. He copied ...
The Winter of Our Discontent
Oct 01, 2009; ... Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (MDTOs) came of age in the seventies and eighties, when the DEA and the FBI cracked down on cocaine trafficking between Co- lombia and the United States via the Caribbean. Miami's heyday was over, and the action moved to Mexico's state of Sinaloa, which ...
Call of the Narcocorrido
Oct 01, 2009; ... 5 p.m., June 29 In the PM newsroom, across from faded purple and brown-striped cubicles where reporters sit amid tacked-up centerfolds and layouts for the day's cover story of a gun-shot man discarded in a ditch, two men, a photographer and assistant editor, listen to the strains of a ...
Manny's Story
Oct 01, 2009; ... There is a stranger in the house. He sits on a sofa sipping coffee. He has pale white skin and blue eyes that take everything in - the lace-framed wedding photos, the halfdozen crucifixes, the mutt that watches from the corner, the enormous television playing cartoons for a young boy. Most of ...