Word: mexicans
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...when the first of Bolaño's major novels, The Savage Detectives, a massive, bizarre epic about a band of avant-garde Mexican poets, was published in the U.S. last year, it instantly became a cult hit among readers and practically a fetish object to critics. Bolaño's second (and last) major novel is titled 2666, and if anything, it is even more massive and more bizarre. It is also a masterpiece, the electrifying literary event of the year. With its publication by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this week - adding to an oeuvre that includes several collections...
...trail has already gone cold. They cannot track him down. They are alone and bewildered in a squalid, industrial Mexican city. During that suspended moment - with the smell of revelation in the air but the actual article nowhere to be found, as if the author had accidentally left it in his other coat - Part 1 ends. Bolaño has not told us what Archimboldi's books are about, or anything about them at all besides their titles...
...Front of Me,” it’s the discovery of missed signals (the title says it all); in “Cabo San Lucas,” it’s a desire for a former squeeze to keep his lonely self company in a Mexican resort town. “Tell me you love me,” Keith sings in one representative, self-flagellating cut; “It’ll hurt a lot worse when you go.” The new heartbroken tinge is especially disappointing because the album is promising...
...Whatever brought the Learjet down, it will be hard for the Mexican government to convince the people that it was an accident, in light of the torrent of attacks on public officials by drug gangs. High-ranking police, prosecutors and judges have been slain across Mexico this year, while assassins have massacred hundreds of rank-and-file police and soldiers. Although cartel hitmen traditionally kill their targets with firearms, they have lately grown increasingly sophisticated and ruthless - drug gangs are alleged to be behind a bomb that exploded in Mexico City in February and grenades that were thrown into...
...Mouriño, 37, had been responsible for coordinating the Mexican cabinet's efforts in the crackdown on drug cartels, although he was less vocal on the issue than some of his subordinates. A close friend of President Calderón's, he had taken the post in January and survived calls for his resignation over accusations he had given government contracts to his family's company while serving as Undersecretary of Energy. In a nationally broadcast speech, Calderón offered condolences to Mouriño's children: "His death is a great weight...