![]() But while many point to the group's smugglers (known as coyotes) as the prime villains of the tragedy, Urrea unloads on, in the words of one Mexican consul, "the politics of stupidity that rules both sides of the border." Mexican and U.S. ![]() In artful yet uncomplicated prose, Urrea captivatingly tells how a dozen men squeezed by to safety, and how 14 others-whom the media labeled the Yuma 14-did not. Border Patrol ("La Migra") gung-ho gringo vigilantes bent on taking the law into their own hands the Mexican Federales rattlesnakes severe hypothermia and the remorseless sun, a "110 degree nightmare" that dried their bodies and pounded their brains. etc.), who was born in Tijuana and now lives outside Chicago, tracks the paths those men took from their home state of Veracruz all the way norte American Book Award–winning writer and poet Urrea ( Across the Wire In May 2001, 26 Mexican men scrambled across the border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. ![]()
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