Monday, October 18, 2010

In Mexico, Scenes From Life in a Drug War

By PEDRO ÁNGEL PALOU, FEDERICO CAMPBELL, ÉLMER MENDOZA and RICARDO ELIZONDO ELIZONDO
New York Times

Incidences of drug-related violence in Mexico and on the border continue to make news. We tend to hear about the crimes that touch American lives — like the reported killing of a man riding a Jet Ski on the Rio Grande. What we don’t hear as much about is how drugs and violence shape the everyday lives of Mexicans. So here are dispatches from four writers on how drug trafficking has changed their parts of the country. They were translated by Kristina Cordero from the Spanish.

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