BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ: CHECKPOINT ZIPOLITE Quarantine in a Small Place

 

LOCKED DOWN ON MEXICO’S PACIFIC COAST Since leaving the US 17 years ago, Belén Fernández had been an inveterate traveler, ceaselessly roaming the globe. Then the pandemic struck and she found herself stranded in a small town on Mexico’s Pacific coast. This is the story of her months on la playa de la muerte—the beach of death.

“I doubt there’s another journalist quite like her… incisive, pithy, powerful, and often funny.” —Counterpunch “A politically astute, world-wise, and occasionally hilarious gem of a book." —John Washington, author of The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond “Written with the author’s trademark wine bottle in hand, between cartwheels on the beach of death, this book skewers politicians and other unworthy foes with a precision inaccessible to more sober writers...” —Adrienne Pine, author of Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras   CHECKPOINT ZIPOLITE Quarantine in a Small Place   BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ