The unlikely rise of Edgar Valdez Villarreal as an American in the Mexican drug cartel hierarchy made him an intriguing figure, as did his nickname, “La Barbie.” There is even a movie in the works in Hollywood, “American Drug Lord.” The U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern Distr...
In her years at The Times, she covered the ways in which communities are rethinking the nature of monuments, how architecture is shifting to accommodate a denser Los Angeles, the significance of political graphics in the post-Roe world and how narco-culture has permeated TV and the internet. ...