There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder. — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is to say… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that comes from… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten. — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement.… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.” — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“I am by nature a person suspicious of the economic machine that feeds me. And yet I am a captive of that economic machine,… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
