If Sean Penn wanted us to focus on the grievous drug problem in the U.S. and not one "bad man,” why did he interview that man and not, say, Chuck Rosenberg? And why didn't Charlie Rose ask him this?
For a brilliant analysis of the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, read Darling by Richard Rodriguez, who, in his chapter on Cesar Chavez, boils it down to "the psychic tension between Mexican stoicism and American optimism." Rodriguez writes: "American sadness has transformed the drug lords of Mexico into billionaires, even as the peasants of Mexico scramble through the darkness to find the American dream."
