"And yet, she never claimed victimization. She came from a culture in which women can become the most tragic kind of victim: one who doesn't know she's being used at all."
I should finish reading before I start complaining, but: yikes.
"Emma's was no ordinary family--her father, Inés Coronel Barreras, worked for the Sinaloa cartel, along with some other family members. Although the truth was that while her family was particularly enmeshed, in the area where she grew up, a cartel connection made them more ordinary than unusual."
Where are the editors?!
I came out of the article with no sense at all of the protagonist as a person. Seeing the inside of her life does seem interesting, but I didn't get that, instead mostly an accounting of dates and events.
Uses Edward Gorey as inspiration for Christmas decorations.
In Emma's case, conspiring to import drugs was as inconsequential as passing text messages between her husband and father without ever actually touching drugs themselves. In open court, even the main prosecutor on her case called her a mere "cog in a very large wheel of a powerful criminal organization" whose "primary significance on a criminal level" was her "proximity" to her husband.
Interesting reading, I didn't know that she was a dual citizen. The article quotes an accusation of crime; mostly mentions a business that happens to be drugs, but skips over the bloodshed parts of that, I guess makes sense for Elle. Sinaloa isn't exactly thriving under these people. The oblique statements that a US prison sentence was a way out for her and that she can't go back acknowledge problems that may have deserved at least a full sentence.
I like Mexico a lot, but traveling in the Western parts seems unwise. Has anyone here been to Baja in the last couple of years?
A category 5 hurricane just hit Acapulco, and I'm assuming that won't help things.
"But does a woman in her situation, married at 18 to a powerful killer three times her age, truly have a will to speak of?"
I mean, I'm not saying that *all* married women have less capacity for rational thought than an eight year old boy, but we should consider the possibility that *some* of them do.
Is it your belief that free will is equivalent to the capacity for rational thought?
I agree with both Heebie and chill -- the article was interesting enough for me to keep reading, but I didn't really get a sense of her as a person. There seemed to be a lot of writing about what happened... but it felt very passive voice/list of events, not like a woman telling her story.
While I would in theory be interested in reading this, I found the presentation repugnant enough that I stopped at the first animated sub-head.
10: I don't know. Let me check with my spouse.
She's the Melania of Sinaloa.
This is absolutely how it comes across.