San Diego Escorts: The Mexican Border’s Lost World
July 31, 2010 at 5:37 pm | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsIn 1958, Orson Welles used the border as backdrop for his classic noir film “Touch of Evil.” (“This isn’t the real Mexico,” says the character Mike Vargas. “You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother’s face if she could see our honeymoon hotel.”) And in the 1990s, Cormac McCarthy set his trilogy of “Border” novels there as well, infusing his writing with adventurous tales and tragic love affairs, some involving prostitutes.
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The naughtiness that used to give the border its flair seems innocent now. The prostitutes, hustlers and con men who once had free rein are, like everyone else, scared out of their wits. The easy smiles of Kerouac’s Mexican border guards, welcoming free-spending tourists, are giving way to fences and armed American soldiers.
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Juárez and Tijuana, it notes, have been particularly deadly places for Americans. Other Mexican border towns are depressing shadows of their former selves, with boarded-up storefronts and “Se Vende” signs as common as prostitutes and offers of cheap Viagra.
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