Posts Tagged ‘Sierra Madre’
Sierra Madre
High up on the western ridge of the Napuchi valley I sit, admiring the thick green pastures spread out below as roosters cry out to each other across the awakening valley floor. Lupe is chopping wood next to their small cabin on the southern end of the valley where smoke meanders from the galvanized tin [...]
January 21st, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
God's Middle Finger
But the largest component of Mexico’s economy was still drug trafficking, estimated at fifty billion dollars a year… without it there would be economic collapse. According to a leaked study conducted in 2001 by Mexico’s internal security agency CISEN, and quoted in Charles Bowden’s Down by the River, if the drug business was somehow wiped out Mexico’s [...]
Posted in Life in JuárezTags: Creel, God's Middle Finger, Mexico, Richard Grant, Sierra Madre, Sierra Tarahumara
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August 26th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey