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Cartels

Crime Food

A Feast for Lost Souls

In Sinaloa, Mexico, women recover the bodies of missing loved ones—and cook to keep their memories of the dead alive.

Annelise Jolley The Atavist Magazine Dec 2021 20min Permalink

Your Red Snapper Filet Might Have Been Caught By Drug Runners

Federal agencies have long struggled to stop illegal fishing and drug smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico. In recent years, it’s only gotten worse.

John Burnett Texas Monthly Nov 2021 Permalink

Crime

He Killed for His Cartel. Then He Exposed It.

They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster."

Azam Ahmed. Paulina Villegas The New York Times Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

The Sicario: A Juárez Hit Man Speaks

The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.

Charles Bowden Harper's Apr 2009 35min Permalink

Crime World

Vanished

Seventeen-year-old Israel Arenas Durán disappeared after being arrested near his home in Nuevo León. He is one of more than 25,000 who have gone missing in Mexico since 2006.

Nik Steinberg Foreign Policy Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Crime World

Interview with US Defense Attorney Turned Tijuana Narcojunior

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

Anonymous Borderland Beat Nov 2013 30min Permalink

Crime

Why Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Loves Selling Drugs in Chicago

How Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars.

Jason McGahan Chicago Oct 2013 Permalink

Crime World

Inside the Cartel

The Sinaloa cartel was flooding cocaine across the border. The DEA was listening. A four-part series based on hundreds of pages of transcripts from intercepted calls, court testimony, and investigative reports.

  1. Part 1: Unraveling Mexico’s Sinaloa Drug Cartel

  2. Part 2: The Trafficker and the Psychic

  3. Part 3: Clear Skies and Cocaine

  4. Part 4: Showdown in Sinaloa

Richard Marosi The Los Angeles Times Jul 2011 35min Permalink