Gabby Barrera’s Reviews > Amexica: War Along the Borderline > Status Update

“…in some ways the willingness of Mexico's rich to ignore the poor is coming back to haunt them. This isn't the poor's revenge on the rich; they are simply finding their own way to wealth and to social recognition. Especially since the old avenues for becoming a man in Mexico …are shifting. Some men are now opting to establish their manhood this way, and this is hurting everyone."

[on the cruelty and havoc drug addiction causes:] “In this world, it matters not where affection comes from, only it exists at all”

On industrializing Juarez: “The rich of the city had paid the politicians to raise taxes from the poor, in order to turn the place where they lived into an urban Frankenstein."

I started reading this in the wee hours of the morning and didn't want to stop. engrossed so far.