Lots of intel in this from mis compas @evodzoni.bsky.social & @liliasaul.bsky.social 👇
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Lots of intel in this from mis compas @evodzoni.bsky.social & @liliasaul.bsky.social 👇
Great reporting on the combo of real attacks and fake images after the death of “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. 👇
(I’m quoted in this, but you could take everything I say out and it’d still be great reporting.)
Five days on from the killing of El Mencho, the chaos briefly unleashed nationwide by Cartel Jalisco looks more like a spectacle designed to shape the public's perception of its strength.
Your weekend read from @liliasaul.bsky.social
and I for @occrp.org
www.occrp.org/en/feature/f...
💥Trying to lift falling poll numbers, Viktor Orbán is staging a confrontation with Ukraine, sending a video message to Zelensky hoping Kyiv escalates. Note: Russia—not Ukraine—bombed the Druzhba oil pipeline and Orbán sent no similar warning to Moscow.
The ever-insightful @anndlandes.bsky.social on the difficulty to convey reality in Mexico when violence momentarily captures the whole world's attention
You read that right - US allows drug traffickers to obtain prívate jets to fly cocaine all over Latin America. Crucial investigation by the excellent @evodzoni.bsky.social 👇
US brokers aren't required to vet their clients, even if they're anonymous shell firms, allowing them to operate in what experts describe as "wilful blindness".
Meanwhile, the US Federal Aviation Authority haven't acted on years of warnings about their regulatory blind spot.
We found that almost of a third of the planes sold by one Californian jet broker - a man named Lance Zane Ricotta - since 2014 have ended up in suspected drug trafficking incidents, seized or burnt in the Venezuelan llanos, Honduran jungle and even as far as Ghana...
NEW INVESTIGATION:
While the Trump Administration threatens military action in Venezuela and Mexico over drug trafficking, the US has left loopholes wide open allowing traffickers to obtain private jets in the US, completely anonymously, for flying cocaine across LatAm
www.occrp.org/en/project/n...
Truly a remarkable piece here in Bidoun by Ismail Ibrahim on his time as the sole Arabic-speaking fact-checker at The New Yorker. It's very well-written and
...the exceptions to standards editor David Remnick makes to protect Israeli interests in that mag is really quite something.
NEW: Chihuahua, Mexico's most sprawling state, is building a surveillance system.
Once complete, it'll have almost 10K cameras, including some w/ facial recognition capabilities.
Authorities offered to share access with US police—including Texas DPS. 🧵
www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihua...
I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
Dear readers, we urgently need your help.
Without at least 15,000 regular supporters, Meduza as you know it will cease to exist. But if you come through, you know we’ll keep working for you.
Please, read our full statement here:
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Unable to extradite cartel capos due to legal processes but under pressure from the White House to take action, Mexico found a way to bypass a key human rights law by 'expelling' them north. Here, @liliasaul.bsky.social and I dig into the amparos behind the decision.
www.occrp.org/en/feature/a...
two deep state superpowers for the price of one
so great to see former enemies banding together for the greater good: subscription-based infotainment
Chomsky 🤝 CIA = helping you nail that next big performance review
My first report for @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social in a while- on the death of Jesús Alaín Vásquez, a student of the Mactumatzá Normal here in Chiapas & the demands of his classmates for justice. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
"They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them."
Zohran Mamdani is not only doing something different in politics – he's bringing the different parts of his identity into his campaign. I write about Ugandan Asian diasporic identity and coming from many places @nytopinion.nytimes.com @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
Hace unas semanas, la Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores de México intervino tres bancos mexicanos acusados por el Departamento del Tesoro de EE. UU. de presuntos vínculos con el crimen organizado.
Hoy te presentamos otros hallazgos:
El inmenso Chaco paraguayo esconde muchos secretos. ¿Quieres saber cuáles descubrimos?
Spectacular, no notes.
Since 2022, Mexico’s customs have been controlled by the military as part of a vast expansion of its power [...] In that time illegal imports have exploded in volume.
“Either they’ve been totally blind and incompetent or complicit.”
ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...
On Tuesday night I was barred from entering Georgia, my home for the last three years. Official reasons were given as “other,” but from the circumstances of my departure in April it’s clear the refusal is directly tied to my work covering the country as a journalist. 1/
rsf.org/en/between-h...
The International School of Belgrade’s fees aren’t cheap — annual tuition costs more than the mayor’s salary.
So how did Belgrade’s former mayor — and now Serbia’s Finance Minister — Siniša Mali fund his three children’s education there?
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
NEW: A major supplier to the global electric vehicle battery industry knew that its Indonesian nickel operations were polluting water with a carcinogenic chemical — and didn’t disclose it.
👇Here’s a quick overview of our findings with @thegeckoproject.org , Deutsche Welle and @theguardian.com
Gran investigación de @aristeguionline.bsky.social
