Ever Think About Why Jeff Epstein Called It Zorro Ranch

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Thank you so much for reading.

Hearing the news lately, I went into my files and found the original copy and photos of a story I wrote for the New Republic in 2019 on Epstein’s New Mexico operation; you can read that story here after it went through editorial pasteurization for a major media outlet, or you can read the raw copy I turned in after speeding down the highway from Santa Fe and spending a week chatting people up in the oldest colonial capital in North America.

I think you’ll still find this piece relevant.

In the back of your mind, while you read this article, keep one question: Why call it “Zorro” (Spanish for Fox) and put fox hunting images on the roadside mailbox near the cattle guard? Then please sound off in the comments, because I’m wondering it myself.

Matt

If there's a secret, New Mexico will try to keep it. The Land of Enchantment has gotten a lot of practice over the years, well before Jeffrey Epstein purchased the Zorro Ranch south of Santa Fe. The world's first nuclear weapon, code name Gadget, was detonated in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Tourists can now visit the Trinity Site on the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range to view the epicenter of a highly secret government conspiracy involving top physicists called the Manhattan Project. Trinity is a 111-mile straight line from Zorro Ranch. Consider what lies within the Land of Enchantment this way: Find a map. Make the center the late Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico operation. Put the Trinity site at the edge of its radius. Then look: what else is secret and radioactive and inside that circle? Did New Mexico’s other secrets throw off enough chaff to keep Epstein off the radar?

In 2019, I went to New Mexico to see what I could find out about secrets within the circle. Santa Fe, 23 miles away from Zorro as the crow flies, is the oldest colonial capital city in North America, one with a twisted history. The historic center of this small city in the foothills of the Sangre De Cristo mountains is the Plaza, an open-air park with a Haagen-Daas shop at one corner. This was