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Richard Marosi

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

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