Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel. Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and demand their phones. “You can’t go five minutes out of the city, ... not even in daylight,” said Ismael Bojórquez, a veteran journalist in Culiacan.
As a little girl, Michele Smith struggled with pervasive feelings of rejection and shame. She wondered why she was carrying such a burden for no apparent reason. The youngest of seven children in a la...