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Katarina Szulc’s Substack dives deep into the gritty underbelly of cartel violence, political corruption, and the raw truths of Mexico’s most pressing conflicts—where every story is as hard-hitting as it is untold.
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Sheinbaum Privately Pulls Support From López Obrador’s Son as Pressure Builds on Morena (opens the original)
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President Claudia Sheinbaum has privately withdrawn her political support for Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, the son of her predecessor and political mentor, and has told senior officials that López Beltrán and his family are becoming detrimental to Mexico’s ruling Morena party, according to Mexican sources familiar with internal discussions.This has not been announced publicly, and it is unlikely to be anytime soon. But politically, it is a much bigger development than just a disagreement between
The U.S. is deliberately using cartel infighting as a weapon (opens the original)
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The U.S. and Mexico may have applied the kingpin strategy at an all-time high this year, but that isn’t their priority tactic.This year, I attended and reported on the aftermath of fallen kingpins more times than I can count. First, Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela (though calling him a kingpin is debatable), El Mencho in February (unfortunately on the night of my birthday dinner…I was still drunk when I got the call), and then those in the kingpin/high level grey area like Ryan Wedding, El Jardinero
The El Mayo Mystery (opens the original)
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Nearly two years after Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada unexpectedly crossed into U.S. custody, the operation that fundamentally altered the balance of power inside the Sinaloa Cartel is once again at the center of a growing diplomatic dispute.This time, however, the controversy is no longer focused solely on how one of the world’s most elusive drug traffickers ended up in the United States. It is centered on whether the official explanation provided by Washington accurately reflected what happened on J
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