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Residents of the Dona Marta favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, work to clean up community areas. EPA-EFE/Antonio Lacerda

June 22, 2020

Coronavirus: narco gangs could see big popularity boost from helping residents in Latin America

Camilo Tamayo Gomez, University of Leeds

Coronavirus is serving Latin American organised crime well.

Food and supplies, labelled with the name and image of Mexican narco Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, is distributed during the coronavirus pandemic in Guadalajara. Francisco Guasco/EPA

May 6, 2020

El Chapo is no Robin Hood – but social bandit myth still endures in Latin America

Pascale Baker, University College Dublin

Social bandits have a long history in Latin America.

More than 35,000 people were killed in Mexico in 2019, the deadliest year on record. Violence has spiked as a result of the government’s ongoing assault on drug cartels. Leonardo Emiliozzi Ph / Shutterstock

February 3, 2020

Inside Mexico’s war on drugs: Conversations with ‘el narco’

Karina G. Garcia Reyes, University of Bristol

A researcher who fled crime-beset Mexico returns to interview the drug cartels behind so much of the violence, asking 33 ‘narcos’ everything about their lives, from birth to their latest murder.

Photos of some of the 43 Mexican college students who disappeared in 2014 and are feared to have been massacred by gang members and police. Screen depictions of Mexico’s drug trade mostly ignore their human cost. Jorge Lopez/Reuters

April 10, 2017

Why glamorising narco culture, on screen and in Sydney’s pop-up shop, is wrong

César Albarrán-Torres, Swinburne University of Technology

Los Pollos Hermanos is a chicken shop run by a drug lord in the TV series Better Call Saul. A pop-up version opens in Sydney today - and both ignore the savage reality of Mexico’s drug wars.

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