{"id":3472,"date":"2009-03-02T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2009-03-02T20:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T20:26:22","slug":"for_some_taxi_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"For Some Taxi Drivers, a Different Kind of Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/02\/world\/americas\/02mazatlan.html\">Marc Lacey:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The tour guide\u2019s voice dropped to a whisper as he pointed out the left side of his open-air taxi and said conspiratorially: \u201cSee that house? It belongs to Chapo.\u201d<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAt the spot, where Mr. F\u00e9lix&#8217;s brother Ramo?n was killed in 2002, in an infamous murder.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe State Department warns tourists about the drug wars.<br \/>\nThe guide recovered his normal tone around the corner, well out of earshot of anyone who might be inside what he claimed was one of the beachfront hideaways of Mexico\u2019s most wanted drug trafficker, Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n Loera, who is known universally by the nickname El Chapo, or Shorty.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAlthough Mazatl\u00e1n markets itself as a seaside paradise in which the roughest things one might encounter are ocean swells, it is a beach resort with a dark side \u2014 one that many enterprising taxi drivers are exploiting with unauthorized \u201cnarco-tours.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nMexicans are fed up with their country\u2019s unprecedented level of bloodshed as rival drug cartels clash with the authorities and among themselves. But the outrage is tinged by a fascination with the colorful lives of the outlaws.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I visited Mazatlan many years ago, during college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/02\/world\/americas\/02mazatlan.html\">Marc Lacey:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The tour guide\u2019s voice dropped to a whisper as he pointed out the left side of his open-air taxi and said conspiratorially: \u201cSee that house? It belongs to Chapo.\u201d<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAt the spot, where Mr. F\u00e9lix&#8217;s brother Ramo?n was killed in 2002, in an infamous murder.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe State Department warns tourists about the drug wars.<br \/>\nThe guide recovered his normal tone around the corner, well out of earshot of anyone who might be inside what he claimed was one of the beachfront hideaways of Mexico\u2019s most wanted drug trafficker, Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n Loera, who is known universally by the nickname El Chapo, or Shorty.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAlthough Mazatl\u00e1n markets itself as a seaside paradise in which the roughest things one might encounter are ocean swells, it is a beach resort with a dark side \u2014 one that many enterprising taxi drivers are exploiting with unauthorized \u201cnarco-tours.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nMexicans are fed up with their country\u2019s unprecedented level of bloodshed as rival drug cartels clash with the authorities and among themselves. But the outrage is tinged by a fascination with the colorful lives of the outlaws.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I visited Mazatlan many years ago, during college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41,33,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}