The capture of Mexico’s last drug ‘don’ may well end the peace and set off vicious turf wars.
Scores of journalists have died in a country gripped by violence that has claimed an estimated 60 000 lives since 2006.
"I think you’d better wake up," said a voice in my left ear. "The World Trade Centre’s on fire." It was very decent of my partner to stir me.
Mexico’s drug cartels are actually pioneers of the global economy in their business logic and modus operandi.
Despite crackdown by Mexico President Felipe Calderón, more than 2 000 people killed this year as drug cartels vie for turf.
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/ 15 November 2009
A profile of the deadly army which rules its territory through murder and intimidation of public officials – with the narcotics trade as its prize.
Ed Vulliamy reports from the Mexican city where death squads roam the streets at night and criminal anarchy reigns.
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/ 9 September 2008
With the help of crutches, Mohammed Mansi manoeuvred himself with difficulty up a flight of steps to the upper-tier stand, wearing his domestically
produced Liverpool shirt with the sponsor’s name, ”Carsberg”, spelled without the ”l” – merchandise about as unofficial as you can get.
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By tradition, the heavens beneath which Italy’s Azzuri train for a World Cup is of a blue as deep as the team’s shirts. But this campaign at the retreat in Coverciano on the edge of Florence began under a weeping, leaden sky. ”Even God wants to piss on us,” shrugged a security official at the gates.