"There Is No Law" – Texas Monthly
“There Is No Law” In Juárez, where drugs flow freely, eighteen gangland-style executions since July 4 isn’t a horrifying anomaly; it’s business as usual. WALKING THE BRIDGE FROM EL PASO into Ciudad Juárez, America’s number one narcocorridor, means stepping into a world that is many times more vibrant and violent, richer and poorer, yet still strangely invisible from the other side. A vendor hawking crucifixes runs from the police. A preacher waving a Bible shames three painted girls. The rust-colored hand of a beggar pokes out from beneath an Indian shawl. A four-year-old boy in a...