Silver Bullets

Tormented by past heartbreak and contemporary politics, for Edgar ''Lefty'' Mendieta the news of the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in the drug-ridden city of Culiacán.

It soon becomes clear that there is no shortage of suspects in a city where it''s hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the son of a former government minister an...