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Drug Cartels

Health

Protecting Pleasure

Inside the fight for safe cannabis for all.

Katie MacBride Playboy Jul 2019 25min Permalink

Crime Sports

The Drug Runners

The Tarahumara became famous for running incredibly long distances. In recent years, cartels have exploited their talents by forcing them to ferry drugs into America. Now they’re running for their lives.

Ryan Goldberg Texas Monthly Jul 2017 30min Permalink

Crime

Devils, Deals and the DEA

How agents took down Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel and, in the process, gave El Chapo the opportunity to create an empire.

David Epstein The Atlantic, ProPublica Dec 2015 45min Permalink

Crime

The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule

How Leo Sharp got busted.

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Previously: The Longform Guide to Cocaine.

Sam Dolnick New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Mistress and the Narcotraficante

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

Ricardo C. Ainslie Texas Monthly Apr 2013 15min Permalink

Best Article Business Crime World

Cocaine, Inc.

How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

Patrick Radden Keefe New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 20min Permalink

Crime World

Alone, 'Riodoce' Covers the Drug Cartel Beat

A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.

Drake Bennett, Michael Riley Businessweek Apr 2012 15min Permalink