In the north they call them narcorranchos, because lots of drug traffickers own similar estates, less like ranches than garrisons in the middle of the desert, some even with watchtowers where they post their best marksmen. Sometimes these narcorranchos sit empty for long stretches of time. One employee might be left there, without keys to the main house, with orders to do little, to wander the barren, stony grounds, to watch so that packs of wild dogs don’t take up residence. All these poor men are given is a cell phone and some vague instructions that they gradually forget. According to Loya,
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