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Fentanyl Crossing in "Vaginal Cavities and Rectums"
Cartels use Instagram to recruit young U.S. "body carriers" near the border
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Ioan Grillo
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Narco "El Plaga" Gives Me An Interview. Mexico Says He's In Prison But He Says He's Free.
"The Plague" describes the crazy life of the new sicario generation and the bloody infighting in the Sinaloa Cartel
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Luis Chaparro
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Searching For Ross McDonnell
My friend and one of the best photographers of his generation disappeared in New York. Almost two weeks later, his body washed up on a beach in Queens.
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Ioan Grillo
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Mexico City's Murder Rate is Lower Than Portland or Dallas; It's a Reason the Gringos are Flocking Here
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The Paradox of Mexico's Drug War and Peace
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Narco "El Plaga" Gives Me An Interview. Mexico Says He's In Prison But He Says He's Free.
 • Luis Chaparro
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My Explosive Interview With Narco "Mini Lic"
 • Luis Chaparro
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The Goshen Massacre and the Specter of Cartel Spillover Into the US
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Mexico's Worst Narco Massacres
Mexico has suffered slaughters like war zones. How do we reckon with them?
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Ioan Grillo
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"Islamic Terrorists" on the Rio Grande? Truth and Myths.
There are exaggerations about the level of jihadists crossing the border. Yet there's a history of Islamic terrorist groups in Latin America that can't…
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Ioan Grillo
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My Explosive Interview With Narco "Mini Lic"
The Mexican government wants to extradite him. The Chapitos want to kill him. He met me in Los Angeles.
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Luis Chaparro
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What Are Cartels?
The term "drug cartel" is criticized yet ubiquitous. Agents impose it to construct cases. Yet organized crime networks unleashing death are very real.
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Ioan Grillo
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How the CIA Promoted Magic Mushrooms
The weirdest story in the drug war connects psychedelics, a Mexican healer, Life magazine and U.S. espionage
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Ioan Grillo
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The Dark Web and a Journalist Murder
Exclusive: The Mexican government found info from a "dark net" on a Mexican journalist killing and arms sales. But is it just a scam using Mexico's…
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Ioan Grillo
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Five Forces Driving the Migrant Surge
Hunger; Tyranny; Crime-War; Coyotes; Information
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Ioan Grillo
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CrashOut by Ioan Grillo
CrashOut by Ioan Grillo
Reporting on crime and drugs, police and gangster politics, guerrillas and paramilitaries, and the people who live and die through it all.
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