Fleeing Cartels, Seeking Asylum
"The woman lowered her head and looked away, her shoulder-length dark hair covering her round face. More than a year had passed since her uncle, a former Mexican state police commander, was kidnapped along with eight soldiers and beheaded by hit men working for a drug cartel. But she still could not bear to look at the gruesome newspaper photos of the killings her lawyer had just spread on a table."
DANIEL GONZÁLEZ in the Arizona Republic.