Last Tuesday I attended a funeral mass at the church in Sosnavar, a hardscrabble village two kilometers from us, for Eduardo Arzola Chávez, age 30, whom I'd never met but somehow felt some connection to. He'd been shot to death a couple of days before.The small church was packed. Seemingly everyone in town had shown …
Tag: impunity
The elephant in the room stirs again
Security in Mexico worries expats but we don't even want to talk about it. On March 13 a woman friend was kidnapped in broad daylight in downtown San Miguel. She's still missing. The event was confirmed by the U.S. Consular Agent here, who passed on the news to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. But for several days …
El Rancho Santa Clara 