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The bus heaves through frayed barrios on the edge of Culiacán – the state capital of Sinaloa in western Mexico – on to the open road and mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental, heading for remote Badiraguato, gateway to the mountain forest terrain they call ‘El Chapo country’. It’s the birthplace of the man standing trial in New York on 5 November: Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, reputedly the world’s biggest and richest druglord. In a book about El Chapo – entitled The Last Narco (there’s no chance of that) – Malcolm Beith writes of the curious surprise among fellow passengers at Beith’s presence on the same route a decade ago: “it’s not every day that a white man or any foreigner ride this bus into the hills”. Nowadays, everyone knows exactly why you are there. I have no one to meet – my only contact around here, the journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, was slain by the mafia in … [Read more...] about A tale of blood, betrayal and family bonds. How El Chapo came to trial

Netizens have bashed Prince William for meeting with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, speculating that the trio could have met to discuss the fall-out from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex scandal rather than climate change. Media outlets reported that the Duke of Cambridge, who previously campaigned for environmental causes, held talks with influential figures, including Clinton and Gates on how to tackle climate change. The royal allegedly plans to launch an environmental project next year and is trying to figure out how to better address the issue of global warming, the Daily Mail reported. The details of the talks between the prince and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire Bill Gates remain unknown. Clinton is a vocal supporter of initiatives to fight climate change. During her presidential campaign in 2016 she promised to put a lot of coal companies and coal miners out of business in order to stop global warming. … [Read more...] about ‘Not Like They’re All Tied to Epstein’: Prince William Bashed for Alleged Talks With Hillary Clinton

Ever since the release of Badlands and Days of Heaven in the 1970s marked Terrence Malick as one of the most talented emerging American filmmakers of the late 20th century, he’s been a polarizing figure. While the general critical reaction to Malick’s early films was generally rhapsodic, Pauline Kael, at the time the most influential American critic from her perch at The New Yorker, likened Days of Heaven to an “empty Christmas tree: you can hang all your dumb metaphors on it.” Many of the same critical fissures reappeared with the Cannes premiere on Monday of Malick’s “long awaited” (accurate, despite being a journalistic cliché; the film was initially expected to be a prominent part of last year’s Cannes competition line up) The Tree of Life. The mixture of raucous boos (not uncommon among the notoriously impatient Cannes critics pool) and exuberant applause at the conclusion of the press screening underscored the fact that … [Read more...] about ‘Tree of Life’ Debuts at Cannes: Brad Pitt’s Risky New Film