Longform

  • Home
  • Best Articles
  • Podcast
  • Sections
    • Arts
    • Business
    • Crime
    • History
    • Politics
    • Science
    • Sex
    • Sports
    • Tech
    • World
    • All Sections
  • Collections
  • Reprints
  • Random Article
  • Lists

    • Best of 2020
    • Best of 2019
    • Best of 2018
    • Best of 2017
    • Best of 2016
    • Best of 2015
    • Best of 2014
    • Best of 2013
    • Best of 2012
  • Archive

    • Publications
    • Writers
    • Tags
  • More

    • Newsletter
    • Suggest Article
    • About
    • Contact
    • Advertise
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Newsletter
  • RSS Feed

Get our Newsletter

Great articles, every Saturday.

Tags

Mexico

Crime World

The Forgotten Story of a Diplomat Who Disappeared

In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.

Brendan I. Koerner The Atlantic Apr 2021 25min Permalink

World

The Death Truck: How a Solution to Mexico's Morgue Crisis Created a New Horror

How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara?

Matthew Bremner Guardian Apr 2021 20min Permalink

Crime World

Hunting the Men Who Kill Women: Mexico’s Femicide Detective

Although femicide is a recognised crime in Mexico, when a woman disappears, the authorities are notoriously slow to act. But there is someone who will take on their case.

Meaghan Beatley Guardian Feb 2021 Permalink

Best Article Crime World

A Mother's Revenge

Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, attempting to catch her daughter’s murderers in the border town of San Fernando.

Azam Ahmed New York Times Dec 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Z"

Sessions with a zombie therapist.

Julián Herbert Electric Lit Dec 2020 15min Permalink

Crime World

An American Drug Lord in Acapulco

How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.

Mary Cuddehe, Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Sep 2011 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Occultists: El Padrino

When a spring breaker goes missing, a seasoned investigator uncovers devil worship and a sinister cult at the heart of the drug trade.

Corey Mead Truly*Adventurous Jun 2020 Permalink

Crime World

Nine American Mormons Died in a Brutal Ambush in Mexico

Was the attack outside of the LeBaron compound really by a cartel?

Ioan Grillo Insider May 2020 30min 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

Crime World

The Designers and the Don

How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel.

Gus Garcia-Roberts USA Today Nov 2019 50min Permalink

Best Article

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

McKenzie Funk New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Sports World

Home and Away: American Ballplayers Are Flooding the Mexican League

Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.

Joseph Bien-Kahn Gen Sep 2019 Permalink

World

The Deported

Life in Mexico immediately after being forced to leave the U.S.

Seth Freed Wessler Good Jun 2012 20min Permalink

Travel

Who Killed Tulum?

Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.

Reeves Wiedeman The Cut Feb 2019 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

Blood and Oil

Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry—infiltrating the national oil company, selling stolen fuel on the black market and engaging in open war with the military.

Seth Harp Rolling Stone Sep 2018 30min 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

Best Article

"Are You Alone Now?"

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Permalink

World

City of Exiles

Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.

Daniel Duane California Sunday May 2018 25min Permalink

Best Article

The Castaways

Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They’re gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.

Mark Singer New Yorker Feb 2007 45min Permalink

Crime

Over the Line

What happens when U.S. border patrol kills—in Mexico?

Taylor Dolven Vice News Jun 2017 10min Permalink

Crime World

When Deportation Is a Death Sentence

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return?

Sarah Stillman New Yorker Jan 2018 40min Permalink

Crime

The Obsidian Serpent

Orange County’s first serial killer in 25 years stalked homeless men.

Leon Krauze The Atavist Magazine Nov 2017 35min Permalink

Tech

How TripAdvisor Deleted Bad Reviews

The travel forum removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts, tourists say.

Raquel Rutledge, Andrew Mollica Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Nov 2017 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

The Disappeared

The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.

John Gibler California Sunday Dec 2014 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

2 3 4
Older