5 BILLION fentanyl pills: The wild story of how an elderly Arizona man, unwittingly, helped Sinaloa Cartel smuggle an estimated 15,000 pounds of fentanyl-making chemicals to Mexico. Read our investigation into how the U.S. became a global hub for Chinese precursors 🧵

Such a jaw-dropping story by Charles Duhigg that is suddenly like the veil being lifted. Raw political power explained, in a single story. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

For the 1st time in history, the World Bank has been forced by a US court to pay reparations to a community harmed by its investments - in this case, $30 million to a Honduran African palm oil company linked to death squads. My story for Mongabay news.mongabay.com/2024/10/world-…

Chemical brokers are the supply chiefs of the illicit #fentanyl trade, funneling #Chinese 🇨🇳 ingredients to #Mexico's 🇲🇽 producers | An amazing investigation piece by my Reuters colleagues Drazen Jorgic Laura Gottesdiener and Stephen Eisenhammer ✏️ reuters.com/investigates/s…

Mexican Karla Quintana Karla Quintana O. will head the U.N. efforts to find the 100,000 disappeared in Syria. She had also worked on efforts to find the 100,000 disappeared in Mexico - but left and was attacked by former President AMLO... eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/mexicana…

Explainer on what the terrorist designation for Mexican cartels could mean for business, migrants and the drug war, but ultimately... it depends on how the administration chooses to use it reuters.com/world/americas…

This "large scale social deception" contract was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations"; was a public record, visible online for many years

Cientos de migrantes deportados por Trump ahora están atrapados en el hotel Decapolis en Panamá. Les quitaron sus pasaportes, la mayoría de sus celulares y los encerraron en un hotel. Les prohibieron ver a sus abogados. Ando hilo 🧵

How a small factory in Wisconsin became a crucial link in supplying military-grade firearms to the CJNG cartel. Reporter Sarah Kinosian joins Vincent Vargas on the latest Borderland:

"When they get there, they are disappearing into a black box without access to counsel." Sarah Kinosian on the deported migrants in limbo in Panama. reuters.com/world/americas…

Very excited to welcome the newest member of our team Emily Green, whose work I've always admired! A great pick-up for Reuters, can't wait to see what she does with ~all of this~

Twenty-seven of the #Venezuelans whose cases Reuters reviewed were never ordered deported. They have upcoming #immigration court hearings to make their asylum and other claims to stay in the United States. By Sarah Kinosian Ted Hesson Kristina Cooke Reuters reuters.com/world/americas…

Lawyers say #ElSalvador blocks access to detained Venezuelans | with Sarah Kinosian reuters.com/world/americas…

Secret unit inside Mexico's largest private TV network (Televisa) launched on defamation campaign vs a Mexican magistrate who granted temporary injunctions vs construction of the AIFA airport, one of former President AMLO's top infrastructure projects, per Aristegui Noticias

A 2022 internal U.S. State Department report on Bukele: "flood El Salvador with propaganda, demonize the institutions charged with debunking that propaganda – the free press and civil society – dominate public narratives, and repress dissent.” reuters.com/investigates/s…

“I want a public trial” screams Ruth Lopez of Cristosal as she gets dragged by police — Lopez was one of Bukele’s most outspoken critics.

Out now: the first episodes of our new six-part ⁦The Guardian⁩ podcast series about Dom and Bruno. Please do listen and share. theguardian.com/technology/aud…

Vast organised crime networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico's president. Here's how on.ft.com/3HA5Czy

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's party just proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow indefinite presidential re-election, extend terms from five years to six and scrap run-offs. reuters.com/world/americas…

NEW: State Dept's Human Rights Report is finally out. The main theme is a softening of U.S. criticism towards countries that have partnered with the admin such as El Salvador while sounding alarm about freedom of speech in Europe. El Salvador language below in 2024 vs 2023