According to Richard Rorty, «Literature can make vivid in a way that philosophy cannot» some types of human suffering. The Wrath of the Bats by Mikel Ruiz, a Tsotsil author, provides a view into the nexus between the drug trade and the rise of the San Juan Chamula Cartel.

«In the back seat of a luxury van, an African lion looks out the right window at the streets of San Juan Chamula. The driver of the vehicle listens to a song by Los Buchones de Culiacán, and shows the list of narcocorridos waiting to be played», writes @lhan55.

«This incredible scene occurred, part of an emerging culture in the Tsotsil town, along homemade indigenous pornography and narcocorridos shared on social media. The San Juan Chamula cartel (CSJC), Mexico’s first indigenous faction, produced and consumed the cultural output».

«It’s a cultural production by the first indigenous cartel in Mexico: the San Juan Chamula cartel (CSJC), a faction that, instead of being subcontractors, opted to control in its territories the drugs trade, sex-work networks, migrant trafficking, weapon sales, and robbed cars».

@TallerAhuehuete The lion gazing out of the van reminds me of Escobar's feral hippos and how One Hundred Years of Solitude is not a work of fiction and how capitalism is a project of ceaseless grotesque mutation within which nobody can be at home.