Ioan Grillo

GlobalPost

Based in Mexico City, Ioan Grillo was GlobalPost senior correspondent covering Mexico and Latin America. He has reported on the region since 2001 for media including Time magazine, the Sunday Telegraph, Al Jazeera English, France 24, Letras Libres, the International New York Times and many others. He specializes in drugs and crime and the tragic wars they have unleashed. He is author of "El Narco,” which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and The Orwell Prize. In 2016, he wrote the book “Gangster Warlords.”


A display of a variety of guns on a table made from unauthorized parts

President Biden set to further regulate ‘ghost guns’

Violence

The Biden administration faces pushback from Republicans as it tries to pass legislation to further regulate “ghost guns” assembled with homemade parts.

On Location video: Mexico’s oil bandits

Mexico’s cartel army, Los Zetas, is drug war’s scourge

Politics

Mexico drug war boosts security business

The World

Fall in fortunes

The World

The danger of singing about drugs

Agence France-Presse

Mexican crooners sing about drug cartels, and sometimes find themselves the victims of violence.

The World

Analysis: Mexico a failing state?

Agence France-Presse

In the midst of a drug war, Mexico bristles at comparisons to Pakistan and accusations that it is bordering on collapse.

The World

Car exports crash, and Mexican unemployment rises

Mexico’s car manufacturing industry nosedives.

The World

Clash of the cartels: a guide

Agence France-Presse

Mexico’s ruthless drug lords protect themselves, their territories, and their criminal and drug trades, with horrifying brutality.

The World

Meet the drug lords

Agence France-Presse

A guide to the four most notorious drug cartel kingpins in Mexico