Sonora

As they left the airport, the three of them noticed how bright it was in Sonora. It was as if the light were buried in the Pacific Ocean, producing an enormous curvature of space.

The water in Santa Teresa seemed much denser, as if it weren’t filtered at all but came loaded with minerals, tasting of earth. In the first few days he had acquired the habit, which he shared with Rosa, of brushing his teeth twice as often as he had in Barcelona, because it seemed to him that his teeth were turning brown, as if they were being covered in a thin film of some substance from the underground rivers of Sonora.

And then she said: it makes me very angry, it makes me frightened and angry what’s happening in the lovely state of Sonora, which is my homeland, the place I was born and will probably die.

Julián Centeno was forty-eight, and the dancer, according to the girls she worked with, was no more than twenty-three. He was from Veracruz and she was from Mexico City and they had come to Sonora a few years ago.

Maybe they crossed the border with their victims and killed them when they got to Sonora, or maybe they killed them in Arizona, two shots each to the head, the women still half asleep, and then crossed the border and left them near Pueblo Azul.

They were Mexicans, they sounded like they were from Sonora, and they seemed loose, ready to party all night.

according to his sources, laundered money for the Santa Teresa cartel, which was like saying the Sonora cartel.