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Ioan Grillo

@ioangrillo

Journalist based in Mexico, focused on crime, drugs and gangster politics. Author of El Narco trilogy and CrashOut on Substack. Time, NYT, HBO++ Still doing it.

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Mexico's 1st Presidential Debate - Winner Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexixo's 2nd Presidential Debate - Winner Xotchil Galvez

But will it move the needle with Sheinbaum so far ahead?

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¿Se simuló un secuestro para asesinar al periodista Roberto Carlos Figueroa?
👇 eluniversal.com.mx/opinion/hector…

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Mexico's 1st Presidential Debate - Winner Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexixo's 2nd Presidential Debate - Winner Xotchil Galvez

But will it move the needle with Sheinbaum so far ahead?

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Watched Civil War in a pretty empty IMax in Mexico City.

I thought the plot lacked a bit but the action sequences, the cinematography, and the imagination of America at war with itself looked fantastic. Worth a watch.

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Another tragic murder of a brave Mexican journalist. Rest in peace Roberto Figueroa, kidnapped and murdered in Morelos.

STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS

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Watched Civil War in a pretty empty IMax in Mexico City.

I thought the plot lacked a bit but the action sequences, the cinematography, and the imagination of America at war with itself looked fantastic. Worth a watch.

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Another tragic murder of a brave Mexican journalist. Rest in peace Roberto Figueroa, kidnapped and murdered in Morelos.

STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS

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For your weekend reads, check out -

'Mexico's New Generation of Human Smugglers' on the gangs in Anapra, Juarez↓

crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-new-…
or

'Why Did They Massacre The Mormons in Mexico' on what drove the cartel killers to murder 9 women and children↓
crashoutmedia.com/p/why-did-they…

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For your weekend reads, check out -

'Mexico's New Generation of Human Smugglers' on the gangs in Anapra, Juarez↓

crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-new-…
or

'Why Did They Massacre The Mormons in Mexico' on what drove the cartel killers to murder 9 women and children↓
crashoutmedia.com/p/why-did-they…

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The U.S.-Mexico border has become the most deadly in the world with 895 deaths in a year. In the El Paso sector, they went up from 6 in a year to 149.

I go to Juarez look at how a new generation of younger human smugglers push more dangerous practices ↓
crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-new-…

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Show me a 20ft wall and I will show you a 21ft ladder.
Or, a 1st Century BCE solution to 21st Century CE challenges. Take your pick.

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The U.S.-Mexico border has become the most deadly in the world with 895 deaths in a year. In the El Paso sector, they went up from 6 in a year to 149.

I go to Juarez look at how a new generation of younger human smugglers push more dangerous practices ↓
crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-new-…

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I went to the Anapra area of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and filmed this video of human smugglers taking migrants who pay over the wall into the US in broad daylight.

Please click on this link for the full story on- Mexico's New Generation Of Human Smugglers
crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-new-…

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The polleros (human smugglers) operating so blatantly on the border are driven by the profit motive.

As long as they can make bank doing it, they will keep finding ways to cross the US border - round it on boats, under it in tunnels, or over it climbing the wall with ladders.

The polleros (human smugglers) operating so blatantly on the border are driven by the profit motive. As long as they can make bank doing it, they will keep finding ways to cross the US border - round it on boats, under it in tunnels, or over it climbing the wall with ladders.
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The vast number of asylum seekers also mean the Border Patrol spend a lot of time processing them. The human smugglers meanwhile can work taking people through the desert areas. We don't know how many make it but they must have a good success as people keep paying thousands of $

The vast number of asylum seekers also mean the Border Patrol spend a lot of time processing them. The human smugglers meanwhile can work taking people through the desert areas. We don't know how many make it but they must have a good success as people keep paying thousands of $
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As Lauren Villagran has documented with great work, the death toll of migrants dying in the El Paso has rocketed up - from six in 2018 to 149 last year. There are various factors, the pure numbers, the heat, but also the human smugglers leave people dehydrated, lost in the desert

As @laurenvillagran has documented with great work, the death toll of migrants dying in the El Paso has rocketed up - from six in 2018 to 149 last year. There are various factors, the pure numbers, the heat, but also the human smugglers leave people dehydrated, lost in the desert
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Journalist coverage of the migrant trail in Mexico tends to focus way more heavily on asylum seekers. One reason is it's easy to find them like in this government camp in Ciudad Juarez. But there are many migrants who pay human smugglers and are out of sight stashed in safehouses

Journalist coverage of the migrant trail in Mexico tends to focus way more heavily on asylum seekers. One reason is it's easy to find them like in this government camp in Ciudad Juarez. But there are many migrants who pay human smugglers and are out of sight stashed in safehouses
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