"Malcolm Beith gives clarity and light to an area almost impossible to decipher and decode." – Eduardo Medina Mora, former Attorney General of Mexico
"Brave and honest... as reliable a guide as you are likely to get to the cross-currents of the drug war." - The Economist
“The Last Narco gracefully captures the heroic struggle of those who dare to stand up to the cartels, and the ways those cartels have tragically corrupted every aspect of Mexican law enforcement.” - Laura Bickford, producer, Traffic
By Malcolm Beith
From The Blog
Wanted: El Chapo
The Sun: Mexico’s most-wanted man is expanding his drug operations to include Europe. Inside the Sinaloa cartel’s UK connection.
Read PostGuatemala problems
Guatemala’s government has declared a state of siege in the northern province of Alta Verapaz, a troubled area which has become overrun by Mexican cartels – namely, Los Zetas. I went down to that area (just a bit southwest of Alta Verapaz) in December 2008 to check out the situation, here’s a report i did at [...]
Read PostChapo woz ‘ere?
The Diario de Chihuaha reports that Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, Mexico’s most-wanted man and the subject of my book, The Last Narco, narrowly escaped the army’s net the other day. Apparently, Chapo was the primary target of a raid that led to the capture of Enrique Lopez Acosta, aka El Cumbias, in the Chihuahua [...]
Read PostPrison break in Nuevo Laredo
So 141 prisoners escaped from a Nuevo Laredo state penitentiary on Friday. Seriously, folks, this is getting ridiculous. In the past two years, there have been major breaks from prisons in Zacatecas, Nuevo Laredo, Culiacan, Juarez, Tijuana, Matamoros, Reynosa and a few other cities. Even Puente Grande, from which Chapo made his infamous laundry cart [...]
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