Mariguano

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Don Julio’s son, El Johnny, lives to tell the tale of the rise and fall of his father’s drug smuggling empire and of the destruction of his family. The narrative is amazing, but it's the unique perspective and candor of the author that give this book life. Americans who want to take their vehicles any further south than this point have to get a tourist visa and a temporary import sticker for their cars.

My Old Man lowers his window, looks down the sights of his Colt Super, and shoots a horse that is grazing on the side of the road. In the room, Don Gato stands in front of me and stops chewing on his tongue to smile and stare at me with blood shot eyes made even larger and redder by the thickness of his glasses.I tell him he might go to hell and the fucking Indian starts crying and starts singing so much about who he’s paying off for his patch that I have to slap the shit out of him to shut him up. Mariguano is a fictional account of a young man growing up in a family in whose patriarch is a Mexican drug lord. You should’ve seen that guy’s face when he saw me standing in front of him dressed like a cura,” Armando says. He stands a tall thick frame and dresses out at about 220, copper skin, finely trimmed mustache a la Clark Gable, every stitch of clothing perfectly fit and matched all the way down to his handmade ostrich boots.

By “silent characters” I am referring to those who operate on the margins of a marginalized society. Most of the time, we just cruise around in the pesera getting crotch shots from the girls who topple off their milk crates.

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My Old Man is out of the van shaking hands with some aduanales and slipping wads of money in their breast pockets.Ochoa has been everything from pistolero to professor and is currently teaching English at South Texas College. It’s a breakthrough of styles and traditions at once, a joyous “Rhythmic Emancipation” for all to enjoy. Pinche Vicente thinks he could have gotten us through the checkpoint with his Seguridad Nacional charola. I learn all kinds of things from these guys, like always be wary of the kindness of strangers and never trust a guy who says, "Trust me. His tailored shirt hangs just low enough around his waist to conceal the gold and silver engraved grips of his .