Tag Mexico drug cartels

‘Murder City.’ Juarez is collapsing

Podcast interview from KUER at University of Utah Journalist Charles Bowden has spent some 15 years writing about Ciudad Juarez and in that time, he’s witnessed what he describes as the collapse of a society. In 2009, there were 2,600…

Urban combat in Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo

Contemplate, if you will, what life in Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo Mexico is like now. In Monterrey, automatic gunfire is routinely heard at night. Narcos blockade streets in attempts to hijack cars. Residents gun their engines in response, stopping for…