Heard about this reading Daniel Zalewski’s piece on Roberto Bolano in the New Yorker.

Celebrity coke abuse fuels violence against women in Mexico | The Sun |News

So far this year, at least 12 women within the “favoured age” of 15-22 and with long hair have fallen victim to the cartel’s twisted gang rites.

In February, two boys playing on the desert outskirts discovered four blood-stained women’s corpses. And in March, three mutilated female bodies — including a baby — were found in a mass grave of 36 people, butchered by the cartel.

The female police chief in charge of investigating these crimes — Commander Berenice Garcia Corall — was gunned down outside her home a month ago, with 50 bullets pumped into her chest.

Excellent photo essay by Seamus Murphy (photo, right is a close up from this collection).