In recent years living in the North has become an extreme sport. Returning home at night without risking being picked up, caught in a crossfire, or encountering a dismembered body on the sidewalk in front requires a certain dose of good luck. In The Karma of Living to the North, Carlos Velázquez describes, as a privileged witness, sometimes with fascination, others with humor, and almost always with horror, which means living in one of the most dangerous cities in the world. He becomes an observer and participant of the most violent and sordid underworlds, scandalized but also shocked by the omnipotence and excesses that define the different criminal groups. At the same time, this chronicle portrays the difficulties involved in being a father who wonders how to move away and protect his young daughter from everyday carnage. This book stands as a scathing testimony. With the irony and narrative power characteristic of Velázquez's writing, the reader will enter a delirious journey through the heart of this rugged territory, ranging from an initiatory northern odyssey aboard a train full of criminals, through a harrowing Ride in a taxi with his daughter asleep in his lap while the driver extorts him, until he finds a fornicator in the office where he dispatches his clients, stories all crossed by a kind of millennial, karmic, that has completely transformed life Of the inhabitants of this chaotic and fascinating region of northern Mexico.