crime 'El Chapo' beer launched by murderous druglord's daughter Xeni Jardin

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

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

music The new narcocorridos for escaped drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman 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

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

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

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

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

fake news Aliens destroyed life on Mars, now Trump’s poised to do the same to Earth, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

marijuana White House plans to crack down on legal recreational pot Mark Frauenfelder