- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction The Descendants
- Prologue Nepantla
- Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
- 1 The Miracle Tree
- 2 The Rebel
- 3 The Venerable
- 4 The Activist and the Ordinance
- 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- 6 The Agents
- 7 The Wall
- 8 The Chokepoint
- 9 The Woman in the Woods
- 10 The Healing
- Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands
- 11 The Sort of Homecoming
- 12 The Trade
- 13 The War
- 14 The Saint
- 15 The Activist and the Obelisk
- 16 The Movement
- 17 The Mother Tongue
- 18 The Bridge
- 19 The River
- 20 The Words That Come Before All Else
- Epilogue The United States of In-between
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
The Bonder and the Dealer
The Bonder and the Dealer
- Chapter:
- (p.54) 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- Source:
- All the Agents and Saints
- Author(s):
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
A chance meeting with a bail bond agent turned French restaurateur in Falfurrias, Texas, turns the author onto the drug economy in South Texas. After an overview of Mexico’s Drug War, which claimed at least 60,000 lives during the presidency of Felipe Calderon, the author investigates the case of a local drug runner who got caught rolling bags of cocaine into the breakfast tacos he sold out of his taqueria in South Texas. She also expands on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s concept of “the danger of a single story.”
Keywords: Mexican drug cartel, The Drug War, Falfurrias, Texas, Narco-trafficking, Tejano, U.S. Mexico border, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “danger of a single story”, American drug addiction, bail bond agent, drug dealer
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction The Descendants
- Prologue Nepantla
- Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
- 1 The Miracle Tree
- 2 The Rebel
- 3 The Venerable
- 4 The Activist and the Ordinance
- 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- 6 The Agents
- 7 The Wall
- 8 The Chokepoint
- 9 The Woman in the Woods
- 10 The Healing
- Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands
- 11 The Sort of Homecoming
- 12 The Trade
- 13 The War
- 14 The Saint
- 15 The Activist and the Obelisk
- 16 The Movement
- 17 The Mother Tongue
- 18 The Bridge
- 19 The River
- 20 The Words That Come Before All Else
- Epilogue The United States of In-between
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
