No End in Sight: Violence in Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, is known as a city of death.1 Perhaps the most violent place ...
Mexicos Drug Crisis: Alternative Perspectives
The U.S.-led global war on drugs has recently faced perhaps the most powerful challenges to its legitimacy, from both above ...
Making Sense of Colombia-Venezuela Relations
For anyone following Venezuela-Colombia relations, developments over the past few months have caused some significant head scratching. First, after the ...
Marketing Violence in Mexicos Drug War
When Mexican president Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006, the country was in the grip of deep and multifaceted ...
Machos y Putas: Masking Mexico’s Violence
He’s dead and she’s half naked. Two images I encounter at every newspaper stand in Mexico City—machos y putas. A ...
‘Dying Isn’t Enough’: A Young Hit Man in Michoacán
I found Beto by chance. For several months in 2007, I had been searching for the so-called child soldiers of ...
In Search of Real Reform: Lessons From Mexico’s Long History of Drug Prohibition
I had thought that drug-policy-related violence had become so routine, and had gone on for so long, that it had ...
The Daughters of La Nacha: Profiles of Women Traffickers
Ignacia Jasso la Viuda de González controlled much of the Ciudad Juárez heroin, morphine, and marijuana trade beginning in the ...
