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All readers of 2666 should follow it up with Murder City by Charles Bowden. Non fiction. American journalist living in Jaurez, dudes loco crazy. Bolano actually sought out Bowden while writing 2666. If there were any Bolano book club, this would be on it.
http://www.amazon.com/Murder-City-Ciudad-Economys-Killing/dp/1568586450
Only the characters were fictional. Similar things occur every day in Juarez. The late journalist Charles Bowden did an excellent documentary (in book form) on the whole ordeal titled: Murder City. There's real life events he doccuments that are even more fucked up than what's in the movie. And no one seems to know about this here in the US.
I read Murder City which is all about the war going on in Juarez. Its amazingly bleak down there for sure.
They are. Read this Murder City
Cartel hitmen had official goverment IDs, police cars, uniforms and military escorts when they went to kill people...
The story I've gotten talking to Mexican immigrants is in Mexico there was a post war baby boom that ended between 1980-1990. At the same time mechanized agriculture took over. Meant there were too many young people looking for work in rural Mexico. If that sounds familiar it's because they's exactly what happened in the US from 1850 to 1950. Like their American counterparts 50-100 years earlier most of those young working age men and women migrated to the city. About 80-90 percent migrated to Mexican cities and 10-20% went north to the US where they had preexisting family ties. Talk to immigrants, 95% percent of them didn't just randomly show up.
That makes me think that all the border protection over the years has be ineffective[1], solves a problem that has mostly solved itself[2], and created a cursed region near the border[3].
[1] Given strong family ties between Mexican American communities in the US and their ancestral communities in Mexico, that was a battle that was a losing one from the start.
[2] Demographic changes have slowed immigration to a trickle.
[3] See: Murder City, Ciudad Juarez