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FearThe fishermen of Mahahual are afraid. ‘The Chapitos’ The Caribbean jaguars are more ferocious than the jaguars that cause concern among the locals. These beasts eat even dogs, but even so, the drug dealers They are more cruel in this corner of Quintana Roo.
Noah Zavaleta and Claudia Arriaga They wandered around the beaches of that region to talk with cocaine fishermen. The planes coming from Colombia, Panama either Belize They unload bricks of white powder that will later be claimed by the cartels’ emissaries. They pay, it is true, but they also intimidate.
Criminals kill, disappear, commit suicide or give a lesson to those who do not cooperate with the business. In bars, you can detect who has done well during the week. When someone offers the missiles – jugs of beer – it is a sign that he has been paid a lot. And he wants it to be known.
“Those who buy the drugs come to your ranch and ask you if you have already ‘playaste’ (searched). If you answer that nothing, they demand that you search because they know that you have already fallen. That is why now People no longer want to go to work on the beach“They force you,” says one of the fishermen.
There are some criminal cells that have already been given a ‘chip‘ tracker to the packages, so They can’t escape with drugs that is not yours, nor can you market it without facing the consequences.
Another businessThe Magic Broom Cartel is the story of five families what have they done fortune sweeping the streets of Mexico City. Yes, only five suppliers win most of the contracts: they put the brooms in the hands of the capital’s street sweepers. perlilla stickGustavo A. Madero, Iztapalapa and Coyoacán are the municipalities that buy the most of this type of products.
Conception Peralta Silverio He says that it is the perfect business, supply and demand governed by garbage: more garbage means more brooms, more workers, more contracts, more millionsThey have an impoverished working class – the street sweepers – and a prosperous elite, like the cartels.
Controversial. The former president Alberto Fujimori He was as loved as he was hated. Even after his death, Peruvians are still inflamed when people talk about the leader who stopped the Shining Path and enriched himself at will. Carlos Paredes He defines him as an avant-garde autocrat who had certain traits that we later saw in Hugo Chavez, Nayib Bukele either Javier Milei.
“Fujimori was, at the same time, a democratic president, a typical dictator – who assumed absolute powers after carrying out a self-coup d’état – and an autocrat with enough popularity how to apply three times to the presidency after making a new Constitution, like a tailor-made suit,” Paredes says in this profile that he delivered to SUNDAY.
HistoryThe murder of a DEA agent led to the Zuno Arce to ruin. The brother-in-law of the former president Echeverria –a true ‘junior’ from Guadalajara– was arrested in the eighties after the murder of ‘Kiki’ Camarena. Laura Sanchez Law found the papers that document the history of a family that fascinated the Mexican jet set of those years.
Crazy. The suspect in the alleged attack against Donald Trump He was a champion of a thousand causes. Interviews and recordings show Ryan Routh as a tenacious man, eager to join countless causes, from combating graffiti to the war in Ukraine. Reporters Patricia Mazzei, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eduardo Medina and Glenn Thrushfrom ‘The New York Times’, did a splendid job of documenting this character.
AnniversaryTen years after the disappearance of the 43 students, Federico Mastrogiovanni visited Ayotzinapa to tell that the ideals of Lucio Cabañas still live in the Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College. The struggle continues, continues. In this edition we bring you an excerpt from Mastrogiovanni’s new book: Ayotzinapa and our shadows.
Series. Nobody will miss us. Tamara de Anda tells that the generation of the triangle ‘Boing’ is trapped and brilliantly portrayed in the series of the moment. A show for old ‘millennials’ with the current tools to tell what we lived in the nineties: those times of ‘Always on Sunday‘, Veronica Castro, Paco Stanley… The good, the bad and the ugly of an era that provokes nostalgia and smiles.
This is how it goes SUNDAY Number 12. You have to read it to tell it
