topic: drug cartel
July 12, 2016
The historic bi-lateral ceasefire recently signed by the Colombian government and the FARC seems to consolidate the possibility of a final...
Reportage
August 8, 2015
This Mother’s Day, Hortensia Rívas Rodriguez wasn’t at home enjoying brunch with her family. Instead, she traveled from her home in Piedras...
blog
July 26, 2015
The Economist needs to get its facts straight. The magazine ran an article this past week on the escape of Chapo Guzman from a maximum...
Conversations
May 18, 2015
Since the 1980s, lawyer and activist Lucha Castro has been one of Mexico’s most prominent human rights defenders. In a country where...
Opinion
May 13, 2015
The first attack came at 2:30am on January 6, 2015. Federal Police opened fire on members of the Fuerzas Rurales, who were protesting in...
blog
October 27, 2014
This past week, Al Jazeera America published a piece by Musa al-Gharbi in which the author argues that Mexico’s drug gangs, who have...
blog
August 26, 2014
On May 21, 2012, Zane Plemmons Rosales, a Mexican American photojournalist, was at a hotel in Nuevo Laredo when a gunfight broke out ...
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