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Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labour all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers - or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services - are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords. In an effort to better understand this essential yet extralegal billion dollar global industry, internationally recognised anthropologist and expert Jason De Leon embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years. The result of this unique and extraordinary access is SOLDIERS AND KINGS: the first ever in-depth, character-driven look at human smuggling. It is a heart-wrenching and intimate narrative that revolves around the life and death of one coyote who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind. In a powerful, original voice, De Leon expertly chronicles the lives of low-level foot soldiers breaking into the smuggling game, and morally conflicted gang leaders who oversee rag-tag crews of guides and informants along the migrant trail. SOLDIERS AND KINGS is not only a ground-breaking up-close glimpse of a difficult-to-access world, it is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
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The men, women, and children who arrive at the border crossing to the U.S., whether coming as families or alone, are united by purpose: to seek refuge from the dangers and poverty of their homelands and make a better life. Illegal immigration has remained a contentious and hot-button topic as the number of people attempting to cross the country's southern borders continues to increase. The role of coyotes, people who ferry migrants through unforgiving areas for a fee, is often misunderstood. While many coyotes are connected to an underworld organization, others do the work in order to fund their own treks northward to peace and prosperity. These guides assume that each voyage comes with danger and could be their last. Anthropologist and MacArthur fellow De Leon (The Land of Open Graves, 2015) offers a staggering view of the people who help move asylum seekers. His conversations with participants in a vast migration put human faces to a shadowy concept, and his story is illuminating and often heartrending in its telling.
Table of Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Honor y Patria | 17 |
I Soldiers | |
2 In the House of Pakal | 41 |
3 Charismatic and Reckless | 58 |
4 La Reina del Sur | 80 |
5 Foot Soldiers | 95 |
6 Papo and Alma | 110 |
II Kings of Pain | |
7 Duke of Earl | 131 |
8 Kingston | 151 |
9 Genesis | 172 |
10 Apocalipsis | 186 |
11 Dinero, Dinero | 193 |
12 Robin Hood | 206 |
III Exodus | |
13 Resurrection | 221 |
14 Escape | 228 |
15 Things Fall Apart | 237 |
16 Liberty without Tricks or False Promises | 250 |
17 Suerte | 257 |
18 Xibalba | 267 |
19 "We Aren't Playing" | 280 |
20 Temptation | 290 |
21 The Future Belongs to Those Who Dream | 300 |
22 The Soldier Who Would Be King | 311 |
23 Epilogue | 326 |
Acknowledgments | 331 |
Appendix: Soundtrack | 339 |
Notes | 345 |
Index | 355 |