The Longform Guide to Mayhem in Mexico

?Against all this, Riodoce stands out?a small paper, in the hometown of Mexico?s most powerful cartel, that insists on writing about the drug violence. There are other places, online and in print, where Mexican readers can go to find body counts or pictures of blood-spattered crime scenes, but Riodoce prides itself on its investigative work, on trying to ferret out the stories that neither the cartels nor the government want told. As news outlets all over the country have censored themselves in the face of lethal ultimatums, Riodoce?s reputation has grown. Today it?s read far beyond Culiac?n, by cartel analysts, government officials, fellow journalists, and drug traffickers themselves. Last year one of the paper?s columnists and co-founders, Javier Valdez, won the Committee to Protect Journalists? International Press Freedom Award, along with journalists from Pakistan, Belarus, and Bahrain.

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