"This isn't Miami," by Fernanda Melchor: Daily violence in Veracruz...
Review In this collection of stories and journalistic chronicles, the author examines how the inhabitants of Veracruz (Mexico) experience the consequences of drug trafficking ★★☆☆☆
Police in Veracruz, Mexico, on Thursday, April 25, 2019. FELIX MARQUEZ/AP/SIPA
Veracruz, a major seaport on Mexico's Caribbean coast, is one of the most dangerous places in the world. It is also the birthplace, in 1982, of Fernanda Melchor, a novelist noted for "Hurricane Season" (Grasset, 2019) and "Paradaïze" (Grasset, 2022).
In this collection of stories and journalistic columns, she examines how its inhabitants live under the yoke of violence, a consequence of drug trafficking: settling of scores, shootings and, everywhere, the shadow of Los Zetas, the gang that reigns supreme there. A dock worker finds himself n…
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