Jo Tuckman
latest news & developmentsMexico media courts anonymous tip-offs
An alliance of media outlets and civil society groups is courting potential whistle-blowers with a new digital platform that promises anonymity.
Turf wars played out in massacres
Mexico’s body count of innocents and gangsters rises as cartel feuds increase and spare no one.
Migrants run Mexican gauntlet
The US border is just the final challenge; first groups have to dodge gangs of kidnappers.
Narcotics war reaps nothing but killing fields
<b>Rory Carroll</b> and <b>Jo Tuckman</b> report from the epicentre of drug-cartel violence in Mexico, which has claimed 28 000 lives.
Marigolds for lost love
One day a year cemeteries in Mexico City burst with life. Jo Tuckman joins locals at one on the outskirts of the capital.
A click for Zapata
A classroom in Mexico City: hands shoot in the air. A nod sends one boy bounding to the digital board at the front, where he taps the nipple of a three-dimensional body image.…
Narco war spirals out of control
Male, about 40, gaffer tape over his eyes, tortured, strangled, shot twice, and dumped on a patch of wasteland — and wrapped in Christmas paper. Without the yuletide motif the…