CrashOut by Ioan Grillo
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I write about crime and drugs, police and gangster politics, guerrillas and psychedelics, and the people who live and die through it all.
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Four Years of Bukele's Gang Crackdown • Murder rates still way down; Bukele wildy popular; journalists have fled; poverty still terrible; Latin American leaders copy Bukele
Four Years of Bukele's Gang Crackdown
Murder rates still way down; Bukele wildy popular; journalists have fled; poverty still terrible; Latin American leaders copy Bukele
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February 17, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Four Years of Bukele's Gang Crackdown • Murder rates still way down; Bukele wildy popular; journalists have fled; poverty still terrible; Latin American leaders copy Bukele
Cartel Extortion Of Mines • The murder of engineers from a mine of Canada's Vizsla company highlights a wider security issue as Mexico opens to more U.S. involvement in sector
Cartel Extortion Of Mines
The murder of engineers from a mine of Canada's Vizsla company highlights a wider security issue as Mexico opens to more U.S. involvement in sector
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February 11, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Cartel Extortion Of Mines • The murder of engineers from a mine of Canada's Vizsla company highlights a wider security issue as Mexico opens to more U.S. involvement in sector
The Narc Asset Seizure Business • Cash is seized from cartels and handed to law enforcement. Does this create bad incentives?
The Narc Asset Seizure Business
Cash is seized from cartels and handed to law enforcement. Does this create bad incentives?
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February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The Narc Asset Seizure Business • Cash is seized from cartels and handed to law enforcement. Does this create bad incentives?
Inside The Venezuelan Militias • Martín Markovits spent years filming with the Caracas colectivos and reveals their dark alliances
Inside The Venezuelan Militias
Martín Markovits spent years filming with the Caracas colectivos and reveals their dark alliances
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February 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Inside The Venezuelan Militias • Martín Markovits spent years filming with the Caracas colectivos and reveals their dark alliances
The DEA Agent Who Debriefed Osiel Cárdenas • I get deep into it with Mike Chavarria about informants, undercovers and narco deals
The DEA Agent Who Debriefed Osiel Cárdenas
I get deep into it with Mike Chavarria about informants, undercovers and narco deals
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January 29, 2026 at 1:37 AM
The DEA Agent Who Debriefed Osiel Cárdenas • I get deep into it with Mike Chavarria about informants, undercovers and narco deals
Snow King: Surrender or Snatched? • Lawyer claims Ryan Wedding didn't hand himself in and cites Maduro case; Sheinbaum says he did and shows contested Instagram post
Snow King: Surrender or Snatched?
Lawyer claims Ryan Wedding didn't hand himself in and cites Maduro case; Sheinbaum says he did and shows contested Instagram post
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January 27, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Snow King: Surrender or Snatched? • Lawyer claims Ryan Wedding didn't hand himself in and cites Maduro case; Sheinbaum says he did and shows contested Instagram post
Trump's Regime Decapitation Model (Plus Ryan Wedding Arrested) • I smash it up with Juan David Rojas about what really happened in Venezuela
Trump's Regime Decapitation Model (Plus Ryan Wedding Arrested)
I smash it up with Juan David Rojas about what really happened in Venezuela
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January 23, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Trump's Regime Decapitation Model (Plus Ryan Wedding Arrested) • I smash it up with Juan David Rojas about what really happened in Venezuela
Guerrillas, Gangs and Spies on the Venezuela Border • I put together a video "cronica" of my week reporting in Colombia
Guerrillas, Gangs and Spies on the Venezuela Border
I put together a video "cronica" of my week reporting in Colombia
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January 16, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Guerrillas, Gangs and Spies on the Venezuela Border • I put together a video "cronica" of my week reporting in Colombia
Trump's Thirst For Venezuela's Black Gold • The petroleum politics of the Maduro capture
Trump's Thirst For Venezuela's Black Gold
The petroleum politics of the Maduro capture
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January 14, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Trump's Thirst For Venezuela's Black Gold • The petroleum politics of the Maduro capture
The Cocaine Case Against Maduro • Who will testify to convict the Venezuelan president?
The Cocaine Case Against Maduro
Who will testify to convict the Venezuelan president?
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January 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
The Cocaine Case Against Maduro • Who will testify to convict the Venezuelan president?
Colombian Troops Counter Guerrillas Crossing From Venezuela • I rode with Colombian forces the day after U.S. forces nabbed Maduro and report from the Venezuelan border
Colombian Troops Counter Guerrillas Crossing From Venezuela
I rode with Colombian forces the day after U.S. forces nabbed Maduro and report from the Venezuelan border
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January 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Colombian Troops Counter Guerrillas Crossing From Venezuela • I rode with Colombian forces the day after U.S. forces nabbed Maduro and report from the Venezuelan border
Trump Goes For Delta-Force Regime Change • U.S. special forces capture Maduro in brazen operation
Trump Goes For Delta-Force Regime Change
U.S. special forces capture Maduro in brazen operation
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January 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Trump Goes For Delta-Force Regime Change • U.S. special forces capture Maduro in brazen operation
Inside A Satanic Temple in Mexico • I went into a "Santa Muerte cathedral" but found halls to a darker deity
Inside A Satanic Temple in Mexico
I went into a "Santa Muerte cathedral" but found halls to a darker deity
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January 2, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Inside A Satanic Temple in Mexico • I went into a "Santa Muerte cathedral" but found halls to a darker deity
Cocaine Narcos Versus "Uncontacted Tribes" • Simeon Tegel travels with an "Indigenous Guard" defending the Peruvian Amazon
Cocaine Narcos Versus "Uncontacted Tribes"
Simeon Tegel travels with an "Indigenous Guard" defending the Peruvian Amazon
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December 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Cocaine Narcos Versus "Uncontacted Tribes" • Simeon Tegel travels with an "Indigenous Guard" defending the Peruvian Amazon
Ten Big Drug War Stories Of 2025 • And a Christmas shout to subscribers
Ten Big Drug War Stories Of 2025
And a Christmas shout to subscribers
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December 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ten Big Drug War Stories Of 2025 • And a Christmas shout to subscribers
The Truth About "Canadian Chapo" Ryan Wedding? • The snowboarder may be guilty of cocaine trafficking but comparisons with Escobar are massively overblown
The Truth About "Canadian Chapo" Ryan Wedding?
The snowboarder may be guilty of cocaine trafficking but comparisons with Escobar are massively overblown
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December 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The Truth About "Canadian Chapo" Ryan Wedding? • The snowboarder may be guilty of cocaine trafficking but comparisons with Escobar are massively overblown
Secrets of Noriega and the CIA • The dictator's right hand man made revelations to a journalist before his death
Secrets of Noriega and the CIA
The dictator's right hand man made revelations to a journalist before his death
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December 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Secrets of Noriega and the CIA • The dictator's right hand man made revelations to a journalist before his death
Joaquín Guzmán Jr Confesses To Kidnapping El Mayo • The saga of the Mayo kidnapping is coming to a close; the war rages on
Joaquín Guzmán Jr Confesses To Kidnapping El Mayo
The saga of the Mayo kidnapping is coming to a close; the war rages on
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December 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Joaquín Guzmán Jr Confesses To Kidnapping El Mayo • The saga of the Mayo kidnapping is coming to a close; the war rages on
Honduras and Trump's Narco Pardon • Overturning a narco conviction throws Washington's war on drugs on its head; I look at the lobbying behind it
Honduras and Trump's Narco Pardon
Overturning a narco conviction throws Washington's war on drugs on its head; I look at the lobbying behind it
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December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Honduras and Trump's Narco Pardon • Overturning a narco conviction throws Washington's war on drugs on its head; I look at the lobbying behind it
Gang Murder in Marseilles • CrashOut dives into France's crime capital and interviews the activist whose brother was just assassinated
Gang Murder in Marseilles
CrashOut dives into France's crime capital and interviews the activist whose brother was just assassinated
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November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Gang Murder in Marseilles • CrashOut dives into France's crime capital and interviews the activist whose brother was just assassinated
Cartels Versus Environmentalists • Organized crime targets Mexico's defenders of nature
Cartels Versus Environmentalists
Organized crime targets Mexico's defenders of nature
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November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Cartels Versus Environmentalists • Organized crime targets Mexico's defenders of nature
Inside the 15N Protests and Riots • I covered the march and disturbances in Mexico City yesterday; here is what I saw and found
Inside the 15N Protests and Riots
I covered the march and disturbances in Mexico City yesterday; here is what I saw and found
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November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Inside the 15N Protests and Riots • I covered the march and disturbances in Mexico City yesterday; here is what I saw and found
My Reader, "The Punisher" Duterte, Part 2 • I sat down twice with the president of the Philippines; it was one of the most challenging situations I've had as a journalist and I only now tell the story PART 2
My Reader, "The Punisher" Duterte, Part 2
I sat down twice with the president of the Philippines; it was one of the most challenging situations I've had as a journalist and I only now tell the story PART 2
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November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My Reader, "The Punisher" Duterte, Part 2 • I sat down twice with the president of the Philippines; it was one of the most challenging situations I've had as a journalist and I only now tell the story PART 2
My Reader, "The Punisher" Duterte • I sat down twice with the president of the Philippines; it was one of the most challenging situations I've had as a journalist and I only now tell the story PART 1
My Reader, "The Punisher" Duterte
I sat down twice with the president of the Philippines; it was one of the most challenging situations I've had as a journalist and I only now tell the story PART 1
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November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My Reader, "The Punisher" Duterte • I sat down twice with the president of the Philippines; it was one of the most challenging situations I've had as a journalist and I only now tell the story PART 1
Mexico: Time For Heroes? • Michoacán bequeaths martyrs in the fight against cartels
Mexico: Time For Heroes?
Michoacán bequeaths martyrs in the fight against cartels
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November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Mexico: Time For Heroes? • Michoacán bequeaths martyrs in the fight against cartels