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A grim-faced Jones said afterwards that losing had become a habit.

While most other characters are perpetually grim-faced with worry, Jacinto’s Qimir is a rare “Acolyte” character who seems to be having fun.

The four-lane highway that covers the 57 miles between Reynosa and Matamoros, Tamaulipas’ two largest cities, is as flat and straight as a butter knife and it slices through an area contested by drug cartels and patrolled by Mexican army vehicles full of grim-faced soldiers and topped by mounted 50-caliber machine guns.

In team photos she’s always the one on the end, grinning and waving while her teammates stand grim-faced before the camera.

Tanned and with a brilliant white grin, he looks at his grim-faced men and gives one final order: "Smile - why are you so serious? We are winning the war."