If you’d told Alessandra Giada that a few months shy of her 26th birthday she’d be in the back of a drug dealer’s car on an eight-hour journey across rural Mexico, she wouldn’t have flinched.
Last October, Giada was at lunch at Entremar, a trendy restaurant in Mexico City, complaining to friends over fish tacos. Everyone was already in Oaxaca, a one-hour plane ride south, for a glamorous Día de los Muertos party. The event was being held in an abandoned church in the middle of the desert, with the popular D.J. duo Parallels performing. Influencers were flying in from around the world for it.
