The Devil's Highway (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: May 19-24, 2001
- Setting: The Arizona desert, small towns along the Mexican border, and Veracruz, Mexico
- Principal Characters: Jesus Antonio Lopez Ramos (Rooster boy), Don Moi Garcia, Reymundo Barreda, Reymundo Barreda, Jr., Nahum Landa, Rita Vargas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Immigration or emigration, Death or dying, Arizona, Southwest, Mexico or Mexicans, Work or workers, Deserts, Peasantry or peasants
- Locales: Arizona, Veracruz, Mexico
A journalistic narrative about twenty-six Mexicans who tried to cross the southern Arizona desert into the United States, The Devil's Highway is a compelling tale of greed, simplicity, and the physiology of extreme environments. Equally significant, Luis Urrea's book describes the social institutions that clash along the border: They include the “Migra,” the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), on one hand and the human smugglers, called coyote gangs, on the other. As if this were not enough for a short book to cover, The Devil's Highway places the Wellton 26...
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