A Massacre in Jamaica

The New Yorker story that won the Livingston International Reporting Award 2011. A Massacre in JamaicaAfter the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued. by Mattathias Schwartz Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life’s permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone. Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies...