Word: mexicanized
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...Because the nation's police forces are so corrupt - many cops moonlight for Mexico's $25 billion drug-trafficking industry - informants are especially important to interdiction efforts. (They helped cops last week locate a sophisticated, 260-yard narco-tunnel beneath Tijuana that almost reached the U.S. border.) Despite that, Mexican officials concede they have an utterly inadequate witness-protection system in place. "There is a vacuum regarding the rules and how to operate a witness-protection program," a high-level source inside the Mexican attorney general's office (PGR, after its Spanish initials) tells TIME. "We keep [informants] in secure...
Bayardo was a key witness in the ongoing trial of the indicted federal police chief, Gerardo Garay, who has pleaded not guilty. (Mexican officials tell TIME they're confident they can win a conviction.) He was also an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. So it's all the more astonishing that he was allowed to roam as freely, as openly and as unprotected as he was at noon on Wednesday, when he was sitting in a Starbucks in Mexico City's middle-class Del Valle neighborhood with a family friend. Two men with machine guns nonchalantly entered, walked...
...Savage Detectives,” Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s greatest novel, is a kaleidoscopic fictional autobiography—a treatise on youth, love, literature and death—whose frame is the journal of the Mexican poet Juan García Madero. Madero is the disciple, devotee and faithful hanger-on of two older poets, Arturo Belano (Bolaño’s alter ego throughout his fiction) and Ulises Lima, who follows the pair through the Sonora Desert in flight from a violent pimp and his henchmen. The intervening chapters of the novel?...
...novel’s style out onto its very structure; the events and characters in the novel’s five books don’t intersect so much as lie tangent to one another. Instead, they remain in orbit around the novel’s center, the Mexican border city of Santa Teresa (the fictionalized Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from San Jose, TX) where scores of women are raped and murdered every year without a major conviction...
...Savage Detectives” in their ephemeral disinterest. Detectives, bodyguards, politicians, and prophets float to the surface and sink back again into an ocean of brutality, where a phantom mental patient desecrates churches and young girls are swallowed whole by unmarked cars in the Mexican night. With its medically precise descriptions of the symptoms and scenery of murder, the Part About the Crimes is a labor of agony and transcendence...