Amexica: War Along the Borderline

a sentence from page 18 of Amexica. 'La Familia 'came out' with a famous incident on 6 September 2006, when twenty masked men burst into a low-rent discotheque, the Sol Y Sombra in Morelia, the state capital, and bowled five decapitated heads across the floor, accompanied by a message that was bizarre even by the standards of narco communication: 'La Familia does not kill for money. It does not kill for women. It does not kill the innocent. Only those who deserve to die. Know that this is divine justice.' 

The Infinite

  This lonely hill to me was ever dear,
  This hedge, which shuts from view so large a part
  Of the remote horizon. As I sit
  And gaze, absorbed, I in my thought conceive
  The boundless spaces that beyond it range,
  The silence supernatural, and rest
  Profound; and for a moment I am calm.
  And as I listen to the wind, that through
  These trees is murmuring, its plaintive voice
  I with that infinite compare;
  And things eternal I recall, and all
  The seasons dead, and this, that round me lives,
  And utters its complaint. Thus wandering
  My thought in this immensity is drowned;
  And sweet to me is shipwreck on this sea

 

• Giacomo Leopardi

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“There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?”

George Borrow