Monday, September 20, 2010

From the Johnson blog

Get Barbie

Sep 20th 2010, 8:38 by T.W. | MEXICO CITY

IMAGINE you are an up-and-coming drug-trafficker. What do you need? Guns, certainly. Contacts with the police, ideally. An enormous moustache, or you’re going nowhere. But most importantly you need a badass nickname: something designed to inspire fear in your enemies and lust in the local chicas. So why on earth would you call yourself “Barbie”?

Read the rest here:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/09/mexican_drug-lord_nicknames

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