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Chama River
The colony is a superorganism, that is, an organism consisting of many organisms. The individual doesn’t matter. All that matters is the survival of the colony and the production of honey. The twenty Langstroth hives are built of red cedar with rectangular movable frames, as convenience dictates and the law demands. The beekeeper takes the outer cover from the honey-super of one of the hives and sees that it’s thick with wax, then carefully replaces it so as not to disturb the bees. He checks the water trough to make sure it’s fresh. Then he removes the lowest tray from one of the hives, takes
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Los Elijos,
Elmer Mendoza
Eddie don’t know the other guy in the backseat—big head, long hair, and, seriously, a hand grenade hung like a chain around his neck—which can’t be good news.
Didn’t mean it wasn’t hard sometimes.
“And what do you do in Mexico City, Art?” “I’m with the DEA.” Give her credit, she didn’t flinch. Her in-laws are some of the biggest drug traffickers in the world and she didn’t as much as blink. Instead, she smiled charmingly and said, “Well, that must keep you very busy.”
Afterward, they stroll down Avenida Nuevo León. “This is what they did in the old days,” she explains. “A courting couple would walk on the paseo in the evening. Of course, the watchful tías would walk behind—out of earshot but within sight—to make sure that the boy didn’t try to steal a kiss.” “Are there any tías behind us now?” Keller asks. She turns around. “No.”
Beretta 8000 Cougar
Lovely and traditional, she wears a mantilla veil with the white dress and a bolero jacket entwined with white baby rosebuds. Chele Tapia, as the madrina, sewed the three ribbons onto the bride’s lingerie—yellow for food, blue for money, and red for passion.
They spend Christmas Day itself quietly, sleeping late and getting up to eat leftovers. Three days later comes Los Santos Innocentes to commemorate the boys that Herod slaughtered in his futile hunt for the baby Jesus. Tradition has it that anything borrowed on this day doesn’t have to be returned,
The same press release in which the Juárez mayor’s office announces that ninety-five people have been killed in the first two months of 2008 also announces a major crackdown on jaywalking.
Infuriating that this is what we’re known for now, drug cartels and slaughter. This my city of Avenida 16 Septembre, the Victoria Theater, cobblestone streets, the bullring, La Central, La Fogata, more bookstores than El Paso, the university, the ballet, garapiñados, pan dulce, the mission, the plaza, the Kentucky Bar, Fred’s—now it’s known for these idiotic thugs. And my country, Mexico—the land of writers and poets—of Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, Jorge Volpi, Rosario Castellanos, Luis Urrea, Elmer Mendoza, Alfonso Reyes—the land of painters and sculptors—Diego
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“Where are you going, little mamacita?” the policeman asked, driving the car slowly beside her. She knew he was a policeman because only policemen drove cars like that in La Polvorilla. “To get some goat,” she said, and she and her cousin laughed, because “goat” in Spanish is the same as “cuckold.”
Beretta Nano,
Its next post is called “Our New Vocabulary” and gives a glossary, with accompanying photographs, of the words used to describe murder victims now: Encajuelados—bodies stuffed in car trunks. Encobijados—bodies wrapped in blankets. Entambados—bodies stuffed in metal barrels, often with acid or wet concrete. Enteipados—bodies wrapped in industrial tape.
You say “narco” anymore in D.C. outside the hallways of DEA, you get a yawn. You say “narcoterrorism,” you get a budget. A free hand and a blind eye.
Fast and Furious?”
The PRI candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, had stumbled when a reporter asked him which three books had influenced him most. He couldn’t come up with three, and finally muttered something about the Bible.
Dos Erres.
