Contributor: Gary Clifton - - Eighteen years I'd been on the job. The convenience store guy had just taken my 89 cents for a pack of Juicy Fruit. This bozo in a hoodie barged in and busted a cap in the ceiling. I shot him through the left ear - permanent rehab. My second round shot the big toe off another customer. DEA decided the head shot was hunky-dory, but one extra toe equated to one year's assignment in Mexico. Go figure. So along with twenty million other souls, 55,000 cops, and 60,000 taxis, I'd done 11 months, one week, and three days in teeming Mexico city, assigned to the Mexican Federal Judicial Police. Washington called it "Operation Interdiction." "Operation Screw-up" was a lot better fit. Federales and dope war in Mexico - think Moses holding back the Red Sea. Every Federale carried a .45 automatic and was quick to use...

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Author: Gary Clifton