Mexico
Satire, salsa and trouble

'A bent copper in Mexico City is the hero of this short, sharp, cynical novel. Tequila Blue is something like a Peckinpah movie: violent, funny, sad, as hot as salsa, as tasty as tacos and twice as enjoyable' The Independent on Sunday

For a delirious trip across maps and minds you need go no further than Mexico. A country that delivers its message in the language of dreams, some have said. And a place where even dark death is approached with humour. The films are sharp, sexy and gritty, see Amores Perros, Y tu Mama Tambien or El Mariachi, a thriller made for £4000 by a visual wizard. The best are written by the novelist Guillermo Arriaga who scripted Amores Perros and that extraordinary 'Mexican' film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. The crime literature is not afraid to look at Mexico warts and all, including drug running, random violence and rampant corruption.

But this is also a land of eye-watering landscapes, the gentlest of Indian peoples, the peyote cactus and anejo tequila. Sublime.

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Links
Diez-Tequila Blue blog
labloga.blogspot.com/ 2005/ 07/ rolo-diez-tequila-blue-mato-y-voy.html

Diez-German Edition Tequila Blue
www.distelliteraturverlag.de/ autor/ 18

Diez-Shots Magazine review
www.shotsmag.co.uk/ reviews0504/ tequilablue.html

Diez-Humanite Interview
www.humanite.presse.fr/ journal/ 1998-12-04/ 1998-12-04-429717