Rob D'Amico is a writer living in Shafter, Texas, a ghost town near the Mexican border in far West Texas. He has written for numerous publications in the San Francisco Bay Area and Austin, Texas. D'Amico recently completed Witnessed: Borderlands, a true-crime investigative podcast about a West Texas sheriff who partnered with an outlaw to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.
A One-Man Army in the Battle for Sotol
Sandro Canovas is waging war against the Texas distillers claiming the right to make sotol outside of its ancestral home.
- story: Rob D'Amico
- photo: Jessica Lutz