Longform

  • Podcast
  • Best Of
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013
    • 2012
  • Archive

    • Sections
    • Publications
    • Writers
    • Tags
  • Random Article
  • Contact

    • podcast@longform.org

Tags

Mexican Cartel Wars

Crime World

The Struggle for Mexico

Has Mexico become a failed state?

David Rieff The New Republic Mar 2011 10min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

La Violencia

Scenes from the new Tijuana: two teenage brothers from the country club set descend into the cartel underworld, bored federales guard the acid pit where hundreds of bodies were erased, families picnic through a chain-link border fence.

Ed Vulliamy Guernica Nov 2010 30min Permalink

World

Mexico convoy threads its way through strange drug war in Sonora state

Far outside of Juarez, villagers in rural areas are trapped without supplies or protection as rival cartels attempt to starve each other out of ranch hideouts. A heavily armed convoy attempts to deliver pensions behind siege lines.

Richard Marosi The Los Angeles Times Oct 2010 Permalink

Crime World

The Murderers of Mexico

The narcocorrido-immortalized Pacific coast traditionalists, the kidnap-crazed Gulf coast Zetas, and massacres that no longer seem tied to a discernible purpose; inside the ruins of the Mexican-American border.

Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2010 20min Permalink

Crime World

In the City of Death

In Torreón, north of Mexico City, cartel gunmen are freed from a prison, commit a massacre at a wedding that includes the band, and then return to custody.

Rory Carroll The Guardian Sep 2010 10min Permalink

Crime Politics World

The War for Drugs

How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.

Sarah Hill Boston Review Jul 2010 Permalink

The Killer of His Daughter's Mother

How an L.A. high school dropout became an enforcer for Mexican cartels and ended up on the F.B.I. Most Wanted List.

Christine Pelisek Dallas Observer Jun 2010 20min Permalink