Fourteen Murdered Men Haunt El Jefe

Six hundred feet below the streets of Mexico City an enormous network of conduits, some of them as large as subway tunnels, helps protect the city from the disastrous floods that have plagued it at intervals over nearly five centuries.

Nothing at street level betrays the existence of this deep drainage system except for an unobtrusive steel door here and there that gives access to the echoing labyrinth far below. Only city engineers, and the police, have keys to these lumbreras, or access ports.