“Where can you steer clear of bandits? Where do the drugs go over? Where can you avoid getting kidnapped by the narcos? Where is there a spot left with no wall, no robbers, and no narcos? Nobody has been able to answer this last question.”
― The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
― The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
“The unease of the tour is not the discomfort of being problematically present—South Central mediated by air-conditioning vents—so much as the discomfort of an abiding absence—a pattern of always being elsewhere, far away, our of ear- and eye- and gun-shot, humming beach to bistro along the Pacific Coast Highway.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
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