The FT is one of my favorite papers, so it's great to be in their pages with this piece on Latin America's "reorganized crime" (also the topic of a book I'm writing). The 2010s transformed LatAm criminal markets for cocaine, gold, & unauthorized migration ft.com/content/bd99f0…

Yesterday hundreds of flyers were thrown down on Culiacán’s residents from an airplane. I went to find out what’s behind them: atsaga.com/p/inside-the-s…

My first published story. Inside Mexico’s New “Self-Defense Squads" crashoutmedia.com/p/inside-mexic…

The boom in Chinese goods shipped through platforms like Alibaba and Temu is driving extortion and gang conflict in central Mexico City @reforma reforma.com/incentiva-exto…

Ex-Olympic snowboarder from Canada wanted for cocaine trafficking through Mexico dea.gov/press-releases…

El colectivo Guerreros Buscadores confirmó que en la fosa de Zapopan en la que trabajan hallaron el cuerpo de Pamela Morales. Tenía 3 años 7 meses desaparecida. No hay forma de sostener el discurso del gobernador sobre que los cuerpos de las fosas son de años atrás de su gobierno

The CJNG is behind 80 percent of organized crime-related homicides in Mexico, according to conflict data published by Chris Dalby milenio.com/policia/el-80-…

Autoridades en la India desmantelaron un laboratorio de drogas que era administrado por un integrante del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación. Después de China, India es el segundo país en Asia de interés de los cárteles mexicanos. Le sigue Bangladesh.

Two taxi association leaders arrested for murder in Cancún - while authorities discovered a room used for torture in the union facilities poresto.net/quintana-roo/c… via Por Esto! Online

How the Gulf Cartel "Taxes" the US Border An oil trader says shakedowns on tanker-trucks from Texas to Tamaulipas has shot to $1,200. Reforma published a list of quotas from horses to jet skis (or "yetsky.") New story on the fractured but bellicose CDG↓ crashoutmedia.com/p/how-the-gulf…

Operation Swarm, a federal crackdown on narco-politics in the State of Mexico, has won praise across party lines... Analysts say it could offer a blueprint for a nationwide approach elpais.com/mexico/2024-11… via EL PAÍS México

Ever wondered how #homicide rates in #Mexico compare to #overdose death rates in the #US? Did you know that Ohio, the home state of VP-elect Vance has an overdose death rate comparable homicide rate to that of Michoacán? Full chart: datawrapper.de/_/74zxB/

Tlaquepaque’s mayor wants to track passengers through ID checks at the bus station after dozens of young people vanish in a CJNG recruitment drive udgtv.com/noticias/tlaqu…

Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl nytimes.com/2024/12/01/wor…

Trump’s designation of cartels as terrorists means companies paying extortion fees in Mexico could be accused of offering material support to terrorism. Mining companies, in particular, have openly acknowledged this practice for years fticonsulting.com/insights/artic…

The discovery of an illicit call center in Guadalajara this month highlights organized crime’s diversification into fraud eluniversal.com.mx/estados/vincul…

Officials working to confirm whether bodies discovered in northeastern Jalisco match eight police officers and a driver who disappeared yesterday informador.mx/jalisco/Teocal…