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If Fentanyl Is a Weapon, Why Not Target the Supply Chain?
If the cartel becomes the only villain, we get a war that looks dramatic and feels decisive while leaving the chemical tap wide open upstream.
Dec 16, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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No Medal? No Problem. Ryan Wedding Celebrates 2002 Olympics With a $13 million Hypercar.
Nov 27, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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How a Foreign Crime Syndicate Built a Business Empire Across Mexico
Washington formally designated the HYSA Organized Crime Group, an Albanian-led network it says has spent more than a decade embedding itself inside…
Nov 20, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Eric Czuleger
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Valeria Márquez Died on Camera and the U.S. Just Declared It an Act of Terror
Jun 20, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Narco-Politicians: Who’s next on the U.S. radar? A full list of names.
May 13, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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How China Quietly Fuelled the Fentanyl Crisis and Why India Is Picking Up the Pieces
Jun 29, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Narco Watch: U.S. Quietly Tracks Mexican Politicians Tied to Cartel Corruption
Apr 14, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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CJNG doesn't give a fuck and wants the world to know
May 9, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Canada’s Bogus Drug Busts: How the RCMP Inflates Numbers to Look Tough on Crime
Oct 14, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Peso Pluma Is Mexico’s Top Music Star and Perhaps Sinaloa’s Greatest Laundromat
The fallout from the leaflets has been swift and chaotic. Peso Pluma’s team has remained tight-lipped, neither confirming nor denying the accusations.
Jan 14, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Fame and Fatality? The Dark Side of Clout in Cartel-Ridden Mexico
Unlike traditional narco-celebrities, whose stories were immortalized through corridos, influencers create their own mythologies in real time…
Jan 2, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Trump Targets Mexican Cartels: Terrorist Label Threatens U.S.-Mexico Relations
What happens when cartel leaders, armed to the teeth, start treating U.S. agents as enemy combatants? Or when Mexico’s government decides cooperation…
Dec 27, 2024
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Katarina Szulc
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The Sinaloa Cartel is Working to DIY Fentanyl Precursors, Cutting China Out
Cooking fentanyl is as easy as baking a cake but making N-Phenethyl-4-piperidone isn’t as simple
Dec 2, 2024
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Katarina Szulc
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Cartel violence shuts down the streets muting Sinaloa’s heartbeat
“We used to play four or five nights a week, making 2,000 to 5,000 pesos a night. Now, we’re lucky if we make 500 pesos in a day. But we will overcome…
Nov 1, 2024
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Katarina Szulc
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The Sinaloa Cartel is Working to DIY Fentanyl Precursors, Cutting China Out
Cooking fentanyl is as easy as baking a cake but making N-Phenethyl-4-piperidone isn’t as simple
Dec 2, 2024
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Katarina Szulc
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Cartel violence shuts down the streets muting Sinaloa’s heartbeat
“We used to play four or five nights a week, making 2,000 to 5,000 pesos a night. Now, we’re lucky if we make 500 pesos in a day. But we will overcome…
Nov 1, 2024
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Katarina Szulc
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Sinaloa’s Ghosts: Cartel chaos fuels a surge in disappearances, leaving families in the dark
The dead don’t stay buried and the disappeared never truly leave, families become symbols of the human cost of cartel warfare and the failure of the…
Oct 21, 2024
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Katarina Szulc
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Mexican drug cartels have marked territory in Canada by running fentanyl superlabs
In an exclusive interview with a Sinaloa cartel member in Vancouver, B.C., I heard the extent of fentanyl production in Canada
Aug 15, 2024
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Katarina Szulc
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Canada’s Olympic Golden Boy to Top-Tier Fugitive
The Wedding investigation sketches a stark map of North America’s criminal ecosystem — Canadians operating under Mexican protection, Colombians running…
Nov 19, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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He Asked for Protection. Mexico Let Him Burn.
The killing of Manzo in a family-filled plaza during Día de los Muertos was a calculated assault on civic life, a message that to govern in Mexico is to…
Nov 3, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Two Warnings, One Message: The U.S. Is Back in the Shadows of Latin America
Normally, after any joint U.S. or DEA-linked operation, names, affiliations, and cartel ties start surfacing within hours.
Oct 17, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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Canada’s Bogus Drug Busts: How the RCMP Inflates Numbers to Look Tough on Crime
The RCMP isn’t dismantling the cocaine trade, they’re marketing their relevance within it.
Oct 14, 2025
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Katarina Szulc
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