Agua Prieta is a Mexican town across the border from Douglas, AZ. In 1989, El Chapo and his Sinaloa Cartel dug a tunnel here under the border to smuggle drugs and weapons. Later, the Mexican government chose to build a starchitect designed library in Agua Prieta to counter the prevailing poverty and hopelessness. It was such an unusual act that The New York Times even published an article about it, which is how we found out about this surprising library. It seemed to epitomize our interest in libraries as places of healing in struggling conflict zones.