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God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre Pasta blanda – Illustrated, 1 marzo 2008
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Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the Sierra Madre, which is home to bandits, drug smugglers, Mormons, cave-dwelling Tarahumara Indians, opium farmers, cowboys, and other assorted outcasts. Outsiders are not welcome; drugs are the primary source of income; murder is all but a regional pastime. The Mexican army occasionally goes in to burn marijuana and opium crops--the modern treasure of the Sierra Madre--but otherwise the government stays away. In its stead are the drug lords, who have made it one of the biggest drug-producing areas in the world.
Fifteen years ago, journalist Richard Grant developed what he calls "an unfortunate fascination" with this lawless place. Locals warned that he would meet his death there, but he didn't believe them--until his last trip. During his travels Grant visited a folk healer for his insomnia and was prescribed rattlesnake pills, attended bizarre religious rituals, consorted with cocaine-snorting policemen, taught English to Guarijio Indians, and dug for buried treasure. On his last visit, his reckless adventure spiraled into his own personal heart of darkness when cocaine-fueled Mexican hillbillies hunted him through the woods all night, bent on killing him for sport.
With gorgeous detail, fascinating insight, and an undercurrent of dark humor, God's Middle Finger brings to vivid life a truly unique and uncharted world.
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"This is exactly the book you're hoping for when you pick it up: a crazy, sprawling story so well-written, you can't decide whether to keep reading or go to Mexico to see for yourself. Keep reading: You have an extraordinary book in your hands." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
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- Número de páginas304 páginas
- IdiomaInglés
- EditorialFree Press
- Fecha de publicación1 marzo 2008
- Dimensiones13.97 x 2.03 x 21.43 cm
- ISBN-101416534407
- ISBN-13978-1416534402
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- Editorial : Free Press; Edición Illustrated (1 marzo 2008)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Pasta blanda : 304 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 1416534407
- ISBN-13 : 978-1416534402
- Dimensiones : 13.97 x 2.03 x 21.43 cm
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- nº271 en México Guías de Viaje (Libros)
- nº398 en Turismo de Aventura (Libros)
- nº571 en Referencia Viajes (Libros)
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Originally inhabited by Indians eking out a subsistence living, the Sierra Madres were settled by Spanish ranchers, miners, loggers and Jesuit missionaries beginning in the 1600s. During the Mexican revolution, Pancho Villa and others used the mountains as a base and hiding place. The ejidos, communal agricultural lands granted after the revolution, became overgrazed and poorly farmed, and today the "crops that pay" are marijuana and poppies used to manufacture heroin. The economy of the region is dominated by the drug trade and the cultural tone is set by the narcotrafficantes, impulsive, violent men with a slash and burn attitude toward their lives and everyone else's.
Grant, a British journalist living in Arizona, brings his own cultural biases to his travels, those of a skeptical, rational Northern European who believes in a contractual society governed by the rule of law. Nothing he encounters conforms to those biases. He rails against the Mexican idea of machismo, which creates a never-ending cycle of drunkenness, violence, revenge and the abuse of women. (For instance, if you rape a woman but then marry her, it isn't a crime.) The rule of law gets subverted by threats and bribes from the drug traffickers. When the government sends the Army in to destroy drug crops, it wrecks the local economy and forces all the working age men to emigrate illegally to the US to make a living.
Hard and hopeless as he makes it sound, Grant also finds grace notes in his travels: a generous hospitality, an openness to the warm and sweaty aspects of living, a willingness to bring the mystical into everyday life, giving it a magical tinge at times. Grant finds Mexico compelling but baffling. He leans on The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz' masterful examination of the Mexican character, to help explain it: Indian myths, Catholic and Moorish influences from Spain, and the political ideas of the Enlightenment swirled together to create a culture that combines fatalism in the face of brute authority, a superstitious belief in practical magic and a stoic, inward personality that finds its truest emotional expression in drunken violence.
Modern Mexico is at a crossroads. It could become a democratic model for developing Latin American countries, or it could become the Afghanistan of the Americas, a corrupt, ineffectual government overwhelmed by a narcotics economy, a culture that combines a rigid behavioral code with impulsive violence. Grant's book is a good guide into what these issues look and feel like to the people living through them, day by hard day.
Granted it would have been pretty hard to get into the scene much further without getting killed, but I kept expecting him to do so. (Go deeper, not get killed.) Recommended though overall, and did make me want to go see for myself.