Cool postcard.
About a year ago I hit El Paso right around dusk from the highway you see Juarez and it is quite jarring. The difference (even with all the illegals and legals of Mexican descent in El Paso) between Juarez and El Paso is amazing. Really shocking and jarring and make you appreciate why we need a border and also why people risk so much to flee here. Like looking into the 3rd World from a modern highway.
Oh yeah!
You look to the SW and see:
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poor people live on the
HIGH ground, not like in the USA...
No running water, minimal sewers, minimal electrification, etc.
It's a real eye opener.
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The Metz family perhaps and the Murchisons...uh huh...
https://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso-historian-leon-metz-receives-achievement-award/53124814But don't stop there.
Before shorty 'el chapo' there was the "lord of the skies", one Amado Carillo:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82957.Down_by_the_RiverDown by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
by Charles Bowden
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Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money.
Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. It is the story of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U.S. government, of how major financial institutions were fattened on the drug industry, and how the governments of the U.S. and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this happens down by the river, where the public fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is a remarkable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/22/books/everyone-has-enemies-here.htmlCarrillo serves as the evil genius of this story, a stand-in for the entire Mexican drug trade, and in that sense the oddly necessary companion of Phil Jordan, the D.E.A. and the United States itself. Was it possible that Carrillo or someone like him had murdered the innocent Bruno as a carefully tailored message, meant not merely to punish Phil Jordan and tear his family apart but to taunt him privately and mock his inability to respond? Jordan clearly suspected so, and he set out at all costs to uncover the truth. Bowden takes it from there.
At the same time Juarez was busy setting world records for murders and especially murders of women El Paso was one of the USA's safest cities.
Because the cartels NEED to keep it safe for crossing over and through damned fast and up to Albert Turkey on I-25 for their Amazon drug distribution megaplex.
"Breaking Bad" was a documentary, not a fiction.
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And from there = the rest of the USA!
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But I love the borderland, it is in my heart.
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