The Longform Guide to Mayhem in Mexico
Cocaine Incorporated
How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.
Patrick Radden Keefe New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 20min
The Death of a Pitcher
The story of a young man killed in Juárez.
Eric Nusbaum Pitchers and Poets Mar 2009
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.
Vanessa Grigoriadis and Mary Cuddehe Rolling Stone Sep 2011 25min
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 faceless cartels that once employed him.
Charles Bowden Harper's Apr 2009 35min
Alone, 'Riodoce' Covers the Mexican Drug Cartel Beat
A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.
Drake Bennett and Michael Riley Businessweek Apr 2012 15min
In the Name of the Law
Cracking down on corruption in Tijuana.
William Finnegan New Yorker Oct 2010 30min
The Murderers of Mexico
The struggle to put the drug war into context.
Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2011 20min
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