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“This sonless, goat-fornicating, godforsaken, flat-beer-tasting beast will carry us as far as the equator if need be.”
“A wall. Hell, almost fifty percent of the illegals in this country arrive by plane; they get a work visa or a tourist
“They been shooting the drugs over the wall with T-shirt cannons, using remote-control planes, digging tunnels. . . .”
Most of these poor people are just looking for a little hope, a chance at a better life picking lettuce twelve hours a day at less than minimum wage—now how can you hold that against ’em?”
The drug dealers, they cut the tongues of the children years ago at the place where he is from, the place where you are going, Estante del Diablo.
“Riablo. In the beliefs of the Tarahumaras, the Riablo aligns himself with the devil but is not wholly evil; he works with God in aligning the balance of things in a sacrifice.”
“Maquiladoras, assembly plants along the industrial zone, which allow duty-and tariff-free manufacturing between borders.
the women who go missing and are killed in the city.” He adjusted his hat. “The young ones come from the country, girls with little or no experience in the world but are drawn here by the promise of wages.”
“How many go missing?” “Hundreds, possibly thousands.”
“Why doesn’t somebody do something?” “Most of the local police are corrupt, and the machismo of the local men does not help. These young women, in their eyes, are abandoning the responsibilities of children and home and are taking jobs from the men.” “So it’s okay to kill them?” “They are seen as expendable.”
Calaveras, where men and women dress up in traditional wardrobe and paint their faces like those of skulls.”
“A man-eater is an animal that is compelled through stress of circumstance beyond its control to adopt a diet alien to it.”
