Beto gets up from the bed and says, “They will be turned over to the DA then to the judge and receive no less than seven years in prison for committing delitos contra la salud. The reader will be allowed to glimpse inside the life of a social group that values silence and indifference as basic survival skills. It's hard to describe sitting in sweltering heat watching two cocks slash the shit out of each other surrounded by the finest pieces of ass in Reynosa, and then comes this princess of something and all that beauty goes away. Through my window, I follow the wounded animal as it limps away until it falls, turning into to a dark spot with a pumping neck that grows smaller and smaller and is too far behind us for me to see. I only catch a glimpse of the driver’s arm and the side of his head before the window goes up and the car pulls out of the gas station.

It's less than a couple of hundred kilometers from Reynosa but the road is so bad and heavy with camion traffic that the trip takes hours. Mariguano is the first novel in English to capture what it feels like to live on a day-to-day basis in the world of Mexican drug trafficking organizations. Read more about the condition Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. I've never heard of the Seguridad Nacional, but then again there's a new law enforcement agency popping up or shutting down every other day so it's hard to keep track.Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Don Julio’s son, El Johnny, lives to tell the tale of the rise and fall of his father’s drug smuggling empire and of the destruction of his family. When I was thirteen, my Old Man taught me how to drive, take tequila shots, and shoot out of a moving vehicle all in one sitting. This process is repeated over and over until the prisoner confesses to whatever he is being charged with. When we don't go to the cockfights and are just in our rooms with nothing but Mexican TV to watch, Raulito and I go out of our minds with boredom.

Torres’ men don’t use madrinas to do their dirty work, and I guess that’s what makes them “ el grupo especial. I know better than to front something that I can't afford to lose, and I'll never steal or put the finger on anyone.Instead of going back toward Torreón, I follow my Old Man and Beto out of Durango southwest to Mazatlán. interesante viaje musical por las sonoridades tropicales de las costas colombianas con elementos electrónicos minimalistas que ponen a Romperayo en la punta de lanza de las nuevas sonoridad provenientes de Colombia. Ochoa has been everything from pistolero to professor and is currently teaching English at South Texas College, USA. He looks like a Mexican Peter Fonda and even has a habit of slicking his hair down with his hand like Fonda does in Easy Rider.