Charles Bowden weaves a story of three strands through his book Down By The River.

history channel documentary One is an exceptionally individual story of a family in El Paso that lost their child, the "great one, the brilliant kid". Bruno. The one in an expansive family that everybody cherishes. He was shot in El Paso, a pure casualty of trans-national outskirt wrongdoing, an auto jacking...very uncommon around then in the 1990's. Many autos were stolen and crashed into Juarez. In any case, auto jacking wasn't fundamental. Caution frameworks were primitive or non-existent. A late model auto or truck could be hot wired in under a moment. Alternately more probable something more vile and pre-reflected happened. The legislature of Mexico is celebrated for in addition to other things it's verging on aggregate lack of interest to the predicament of its natives in a bad position in outside nations. The denounced carjacker and executioner was a poverty stricken Mexican adolescent. For reasons unknown, this time Mexico jumps to the protection. The cash pours in. While Bruno Jordan was detached to wrongdoing or opiates there was an association. His sibling Phil. A high authority in the DEA. He was included in several cases. At last the family's misery and quest for equity comes to nothing.. This mirrors the experience of the general population of Juarez and Mexico whole. A nation where Justice is a joke and there is no trust of continually discovering it. In any case, requital is something else. Infrequently that can be found. Until the exacted retribution return to take it.