From the web: “El Chapo embodies all of America’s misguided anxieties about Mexico”

Americans need Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman like a machine needs grease. We don’t need the flesh and blood of the infamous Mexican drug lord, who escaped from prison for a second time on Saturday, himself, so much as we need the idea – the story – of him.

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt