Todd Bensman

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Todd Bensman has worked as a newspaper, television and magazine journalist for more than 20 years, domestically and overseas. He serves as an investigative projects reporter for Hearst Corporation’s The San Antonio Express-News, where he has earned national and regional recognition for work ranging from government corruption to border security.

The cross-border bullet trade

March 10, 2017Agence France-Presse

Mexican drug cartels are loading up on bullets in the U.S.

A tale of two Laredos

March 10, 2017Agence France-Presse

Bringing Laredo’s missing home

March 10, 2017Politics

Investigation: US retailers fuel Mexico’s drug wars

March 10, 2017Agence France-Presse

Iran reaches out to Mexico

March 10, 2017Agence France-Presse

Record number of guns in Mexico traced to the US

March 10, 2017Agence France-Presse

The number of confiscated weapons that originated in the US is on the rise.

Interview with a hitman

March 10, 2017Agence France-Presse

Todd Bensman interviews a former Mexican soldier who changed sides, joining a drug cartel.

Obama’s other surge

March 10, 2017Business, Finance & Economics

Agents are headed to the border to combat smuggling — but they likely won’t be able to the touch the retailers selling the guns.

Mexican cartels go global

March 10, 2017Agence France-Presse

Drug organizations have been moving operations to countries in Africa and the Middle East.

Interview: A drug lord’s lawyer

March 10, 2017Agence France-Presse

A lawyer who represented a drug lord seeks asylum in the US, after being tortured in Mexico.