Leading Mexican Journalist Explains Why Everything You're Hearing About the Drug War Is Wrong Roque Planas - The Huffington Post
go to original June 9, 2015

Narcoland: Journalist Braves Threats to Reveal Ties Between Mexican Govt & Drug Cartels (Democracy Now!)

Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez, Roberto Saviano Check it out on Amazon.com

As one of Mexico’s leading investigative journalists, Anabel Hernández has dedicated the past decade to investigating her country’s drug war - one of the most dangerous projects a reporter could ask for.

Her 2010 book Los señores del narco, translated into English as Narcoland, detailed the extensive government corruption that allowed Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and his Sinaloa cartel to become one of the most powerful criminal enterprises in the world.

Working in partnership with journalist Steve Fisher at the Center for Investigative Reporting at the University of California, Berkeley, Hernández has also been at the forefront of one of the leading investigative reports into the case of the missing 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college who were attacked by Mexican police in September.

Hernández spoke with The WorldPost about the misconceptions surrounding Mexico’s drug war, the role the U.S. plays in Mexico's violence and why we shouldn’t assume that drug cartels are behind the disappearance of the missing 43 students.

Read the interview at The Huffington Post

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