drugs In Mexico, police find 4 severed heads in coolers with “Happy Day of the Dead” note Xeni Jardin

youtube WATCH: Chapo Guzmán escape route video with narco-corrido soundtrack Xeni Jardin

Weird Cash, $3 million, found in barrels of raw pork Xeni Jardin

security One Weird Law That Interferes With Security Research, Remix Culture, and Even Car Repair Kit Walsh

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crime El Chapo went down because his sysadmin sold him out Cory Doctorow

DEA official tasked with stopping DEA sex parties is under investigation for procuring prostitutes for sex parties Mark Frauenfelder

Science Save The Elephants: How DNA revealed the 3 cartels behind most of Africa’s ivory smuggling Xeni Jardin

Business Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the collapse of 2008 and things are much, much worse Cory Doctorow

News Mexico: 166 human skulls found in Veracruz clandestine mass grave Xeni Jardin

medicine Médecins Sans Frontières is on the front lines of the Mexican drug war Seamus Bellamy

crime Cocaine gang set a bounty on drug-sniffing German shepherd David Pescovitz

corruption 114 candidates in Mexico's upcoming elections have been murdered, so far Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Innovation should be legal; that's why I'm launching NeTV2 Bunnie Huang

freedom of the press Report: Freedom of the Press in decline around the world Seamus Bellamy

books Charles Stross's "Dark State": transdimensional, nuclear-tipped mutually assured destruction by way of a first-rate spy novel Cory Doctorow

class war Mexican cities secede to escape corruption and cartels, forming corporate dystopias, precarious utopian projects, and Mad Maxish militia towns Cory Doctorow

drug wars 653,249 people were arrested in the US last year for breaking marijuana laws Mark Frauenfelder