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
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Ioan Grillo
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FROM Ioan Grillo
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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." That's according to Ioan Grillo, investigative reporter and author of the new book Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America . Grillo discusses how crime goes together with politics and culture.
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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. Four thousand people have died since Enrique Peña Nieto took office, and now vigilantes are taking the law into their own hands. Will stepped-up US enforcement aid still be welcome? Will security be the elephant in the room?
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Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
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How was the trip? President Trump's travels got less fun as he went from the Middle East to Europe.
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.