Nathaniel Janowitz
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 15:06
Mexico's murder rate is getting significantly worse again, after a few years during which the killing had begun to fall off. According to official figures released this week, the number of murders in Mexico during the first half of this year was around 15 percent higher than in the same period of 2015.
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 06:30
Zeta hitman talks about the way the influence of his notoriously bloody cartel in Veracruz has risen and fallen with the strength of its ties to the state government. In Veracruz many believe the politicians are the biggest criminals.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 06:30
During the last decade of extreme violence associated with Mexico's drug wars, Mexicans have become used to the discovery and exhumation of clandestine graves filled with victims of the horror. This month, the authorities are digging up a shady grave with a difference — the corpses were put there by the government.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 06:39
Nestora Salgado is a dual US-Mexican citizen and former child bride who led a community uprising to fight drug cartels in one of Mexico's most dangerous states. She became a heroine for some and a villain for others, and has spent over two years in jail accused of kidnapping.
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 05:15
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, whose family once ran one of Mexico's biggest trafficking organizations, has pleaded guilty in a United States court to helping to ship tons of cocaine and methamphetamine to the US.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 06:12
It amounts to a rare effort to push for public officials to face consequences for abuses and a who's who of Mexican human rights groups and prominent academics have put their weight behind it.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 06:07
The problem, it appeared, lay in who controlled the transit of illegal drugs through the city which had long been in the hands of the Sinaloa cartel but had become a matter of competition following the capture of the group's leader — Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — in February 2014. It got even worse after he escaped in July this year.