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Drug Trafficking

Crime

Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins

The opioid’s potency has transformed the global trafficking—and policing—of narcotics.

Esmé E Deprez, Li Hui, Ken Wills Bloomberg May 2018 15min Permalink

Crime Religion

The Believers: Cult Murders in Mexico

The American students hopped across the border for a night of partying in Matamoros. One didn’t return and was found later in a shack with 14 other corpses.

Guy Garcia Rolling Stone Jun 1989 15min Permalink

Business Crime World

The Narco-Terror Trap

The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?

Ginger Thompson ProPublica Dec 2015 35min 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

Rio: The Fight for the Favelas

On the experimental favela police force UPP (aka “The Big Skull”) and their efforts to clean Rio’s largest slum in advance of the World Cup and Olympics.

Misha Glenny The Financial Times Nov 2012 15min Permalink

Crime

A Drug Family in the Winner’s Circle

On the Mexican drug cartel accused of laundering money with race horses.

Ginger Thompson New York Times Jun 2012 Permalink