Tag: mexico
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The Covert Mission to Solve a Mexican Journalist’s Murder | The New Yorker
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The Covert Mission to Solve a Mexican Journalist’s Murder After the death of a reporter who investigated narcopolitics, her colleagues formed a secret collective to bring the killers to justice—and challenge a culture of impunity. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/the-covert-mission-to-solve-a-mexican-journalists-murder The murder scene had been captured on at least five security cameras, from multiple angles.…
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How a Mexican lagoon lost its colors
How a Mexican Lagoon Lost Its Colors Bacalar is poised to become one of the country’s great tourist destinations—if its ecosystem can survive. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-a-mexican-lagoon-lost-its-colors It’s hard to build a booming tourist economy atop an ecological attraction without destroying it. Some of the colonies of microbes in the lagoon are more than…
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The death truck: how a solution to Mexico’s morgue crisis created a new horror | Mexico | The Guardian
The death truck: how a solution to Mexico’s morgue crisis created a new horror The long read: How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara? via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/01/death-truck-mexico-morgue-crisis-guadalajara To their horror, they were right. Concealed behind the polar bear’s anodyne smile lay 273 decomposing corpses. Still,…
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Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok – The New York Times
Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok (Published 2020) Mexico is set to shatter another murder record, but that grim reality is nowhere to be seen on the TikTok videos that go viral by showcasing drug cartel culture. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/world/americas/mexico-drugs-cartel-tiktok.html But while some videos are still made to strike terror, others are created…