Journalist Anabel Hernandez Is the Woman the Mexican Drug Barons Fear James Legge - The Independent
go to original September 19, 2013

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She has won global and national awards for her work, but the surest sign that Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez is making a difference are the two security guards who protect her 24 hours a day.

They became necessary when the release of her book – Los Senores del Narco – sparked attacks on her family, headless animals being sent to her home and several death threats.

In the book, Hernandez gave a detailed account of Mexico’s drug traffickers and how, through a shady nexus of police, politicians, government workers and businessmen they – to use her term – “work their way into every nook and cranny of the social edifice, like damp.”

Three years later, she is bringing her book, a surprise commercial success which shifted more than 100,000 copies in Mexico, to the English-speaking world.

Her motive, she says, is for people to “understand that this problem is not just a problem for Mexico, and when a person buys a gram of cocaine in New York or London or Paris they are making these people more powerful, who are killing people in Mexico, and they control other types of crimes across the world”.

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