Time Magazine
Investigative journalist and author of Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America and El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency; former Mexico correspondent for Time magazine
PROFILE
Ioan Grillo
Guest
FROM Ioan Grillo
To the Point
The Men behind the Most Dangerous Cartels Gangster warlords are now dominant players in Mexico and other countries south of the border. "The collapse of military dictatorships and guerrilla armies left stockpiles of weapons and soldiers searching for new payrolls."
To the Point
Mexico: the Partnership and the Problems Mexico's new President wants to shift attention away from severed heads, mass graves and bodies hanging from bridges to a growing economy. So does President Obama on today's visit to the "Aztec Tiger," which is booming enough to attract foreign investors after years of paralysis. But the drug wars are not over.
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