Banditos & Bucktails: Skirting Danger in Chiapas, Mexico

Zach Lazzari January 5, 2026 Banditos & Bucktails: Skirting Danger in Chiapas, Mexico Shale dog hung her head out the window gulping for any semblance of a cool breeze where none existed while I traded glances between the van’s temperature gauge and a lowland Gulf of Mexico highway. The air was so thick I could taste wafting black fumes of oil refinery smudge on the tip of my tongue. We pressed hard south through Veracruz and Tabasco regions, sharing narrow lanes with a nonstop stream of semi...