Rocky Point is more than a beachy tourist trap. A team of surgeons from Phoenix is working for free there to save the lives of Mexico’s most impoverished — cartel members included.
Golden sunlight begins to trickle over the horizon, illuminating the gentle waves in the Gulf of California, as Tomás Hernández arrives at Hospital General de Puerto Peñasco. A nurse guides him through the shadowy, meandering hallways where yellow paint peels from stucco walls before he arrives at a door labeled “Quirófano,” Spanish for operating room.…