During the first five months of the year, murders in San Miguel have risen to between 29 and 50, depending who's counting, compared to 28 during all of last year, putting 2019 on track to be the bloodiest year ever. Indeed, fuzzy statistics are but one problem in any discussion about crime in San Miguel, where …
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Protests on the road to nowhere
Driving back from two weeks at the beach with our dowager mutt Gladys, Stew and I were trapped in a seven-hour live demonstration of the Mexican art of futile political protest: A lot of sound and fury—perhaps justified—but ultimately signifying very little except that our trip to our friends’ place in the beautiful colonial town of …
Ode to Joyous
Stew and I are not big on attending memorial services but on Sunday we went to one for a local American woman who had been murdered a little more than a week before but whom we barely knew. We felt our presence would signal concern about the lengthening string of murders, assaults and other serious …
Murders, he wrote
During the past five weeks two Americans, or maybe three, were found murdered in San Miguel, adding to the smog of bad news and publicity already enveloping the town. In an American or Canadian city of comparable size, two or three homicides coming so close together would have raised public questions or perhaps just one: …
El Rancho Santa Clara 