Posts in Latinoamerica
Gold, guns and cartels: the battle for a billion-dollar mine

A gold mine in Mexico's Sonoran desert was taken over by the sons of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Mexican officials and military generals said they would help an American businessman reclaim the mine — after hefty bribes. For one man, reclaiming the mine was more than a business proposition. It was a reckoning with his past and a chance to pay back the orphanage that raised him.

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The Last Stop

A Mexican journalist’s new book takes readers on a disturbing trip that reveals how organized criminals routinely targeted and killed travelers bound for the Texas border — with almost total impunity.

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La última parada

El nuevo libro de una periodista mexicana lleva a los lectores a un desconcertante recorrido que revela cómo los criminales organizados rutinariamente apuntaban y mataban a viajeros con destino a la frontera de Texas, con casi total impunidad.

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