Morir en el Golfo / Dying in the Gulf

Dying in the Gulf is the staging of a deadly lawsuit, a clear and disturbing portrait of the ways in which the struggle for power takes place in contemporary Mexico. On the one side, we find the beautiful and perverse Anabela Guillaumin and her husband,the steep politician Francisco Rojano. On the other, the oil union boss, Lâazaro Pizarro, is the incarnation of the Mexican corporate authoritarian world. The narrator of the story, an influential columnist, is drawn into the conflict because of his friendship with Anabela and Rojano. Standing right in front of them, a nameless character who is the head of the country's political police, with access to all kinds of privileged information, acts as witness and judge--