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Matthew Williams
September 17, 2019

The Mexican Drug War: Has the army committed war crimes?

Matthew Williams
September 17, 2019

Mexico’s conflict has rippled across continents.

Tagged: Trafficking, Latin America, Money Laundering, Smuggling, Migrant Crisis, Drug War, Drugs, Heroin, Cocaine, Marajuana, Mexico, Crime Wars, Homicides, Refugees, Poverty, Development, Central America, Los Zetas, Cartels, Narcos, Sicario, Paramilitary

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Matthew Williams
June 17, 2019

Review: Salvador

Matthew Williams
June 17, 2019

Didion’s war-time El-Salvador is an eerie and chilling landscape.

Tagged: Central America, Latin America, Crime Wars, Trafficking, Drug War, Development, Poverty, Paramilitary

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Matthew Williams
June 12, 2019

Review: Gomorrah - Italy's Other Mafia

Matthew Williams
June 12, 2019

A flawed, but intriguing looks at the dynamics of Camorra, one of Italy’s most brutal criminal organisations.

Tagged: Trafficking, Poverty, Crime Wars, Migrant Crisis, Paramilitary, Italy, Cocaine, Sicario, Drugs, Smuggling, Narcos

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Matthew Williams
June 5, 2019

Review: Good Cop, Bad War - My Undercover Life Inside Britain’s Biggest Drug Gangs

Matthew Williams
June 5, 2019

The British drug war, as seen through the eyes of an undercover policeman.

Tagged: Drugs, Drug War, Homicides, Poverty, Crime Wars

Matthew Williams
May 29, 2019

Drugs and Smugglers: Libya has become a haven for transnational crime

Matthew Williams
May 29, 2019

With Libya broken by war, and plagued by corruption and weak institutions, crime is flourishing.

Tagged: Libya, Smuggling, Drugs, Drug War, Narcos, Cartels, Cocaine

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Matthew Williams
October 29, 2018

"Fue el Estado" - Review: Narcolands & A Massacre in Mexico

Matthew Williams
October 29, 2018

Mexico’s unfinished wars in the 1980s have fused with the disastrous ‘War on Drugs’.

Tagged: Migrant Crisis, Mexico, Crime Wars, Los Zetas, Drug War, Drugs, Money Laundering, Smuggling, Homicides, Cocaine, Colombia, Narcos, Marajuana, Paramilitary, Trafficking, Heroin

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Matthew Williams
October 13, 2018

The Failure of the “War on Drugs”

Matthew Williams
October 13, 2018

The Mexican Drug War and its wider conflict comes to London’s doorstep.

Tagged: Mexico, Crime Wars, Cartels, Central America, Drug War, Drugs, Narcos, Cocaine, Heroin, Marajuana, Money Laundering

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Matthew Williams
July 23, 2018

Review: Dying for the Truth - Undercover in the Mexican Drug War

Matthew Williams
July 23, 2018

Dying for the Truth is an unfiltered, horrifying account of the fallacy of the Mexican Drug War and the conflict the international community ignored.

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Matthew Williams
July 4, 2018

Review: The Sorrows of Mexico

Matthew Williams
July 4, 2018

A sobering read about the conflict the world forgot.

Tagged: Mexico, Drug War, Refugees, Paramilitary, Poverty, Development, Homicides, Narcos, Central America, Trafficking

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Matthew Williams
June 29, 2018

Review: Narconomics - How To Run A Drug Cartel

Matthew Williams
June 29, 2018

To understand drug trafficking is to understand modern economics. The only way the cartels can function is, contrary to popular culture, not by being an outcast in the economic system, but by being a fundamental part of it.

Tagged: Cartels, Smuggling, Los Zetas, Drugs, Drug War, Narcos, Crime Wars

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Matthew Williams
June 27, 2018

La Noche Triste: Central America's Age of Terror

Matthew Williams
June 27, 2018

Violence, massacre and refugees dominate a turbulent landscape in Central America.

Tagged: Los Zetas, Mexico, Sicario

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Matthew Williams
June 25, 2018

Mexico's Avocado War

Matthew Williams
June 25, 2018

The ‘Blood Avocados’ phenomenon illustrates a key point; The Mexican Drug War is about more than the narcotics trade.

Tagged: Trafficking, Latin America, Mexico, Cartels, Crime Wars, Drug War, Paramilitary

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Matthew Williams
June 25, 2018

Review: Los Zetas Inc. - Criminal Corporations, Energy and Civil War in Mexico

Matthew Williams
June 25, 2018

A thorough analysis of Los Zetas and an in-depth look at the Mexican conflict and its causes while breaking down the structure of a savage enterprise tearing the country apart. ‬

Tagged: Drug War, Drugs, Homicides, Mexico, Migrant Crisis, Smuggling, Los Zetas, Narcos, Trafficking

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Matthew Williams
June 21, 2018

Narcofosas: Mexico's State of Terror

Matthew Williams
June 21, 2018

150,000–200,000 Mexican men, women and children have been killed or disappeared in drug-related violence

Tagged: Mexico, Drugs, Cartels, Smuggling, Latin America, Homicides, Crime Wars, Central America, Los Zetas, Sinaloa, Sicario, Migrant Crisis, Refugees

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Matthew Williams
June 21, 2018

Review: Gangster Warlords - Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America

Matthew Williams
June 21, 2018

Gangster Warlords has immersive personal stories and characters and is the perfect introduction to Latin America’s violent crime wars.

Tagged: Crime Wars, Drugs, Narcos, Latin America, Homicides, Trafficking, Smuggling, Central America

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Matthew Williams
June 21, 2018

Review: El-Narco - The Bloody Rise of the Mexican Cartels

Matthew Williams
June 21, 2018

Gripping historical analysis, a careful systematic break-down of the ultra-violent Mexican TOCs tearing the country apart.


Tagged: Narcos, Drugs, Los Zetas, Sinaloa, Mexico, Latin America, Crime Wars, Drug War

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