AFP: Mexican army moves into Veracruz
October 14 2011- The Mexican government has launched a military crackdown in the state of Veracruz following more than 80 killings in the tourist port in the last few weeks. Despite the military’s...
View ArticleUnivision: Javier Sicilia and the politics of grief
October 18 2011 – A short video documentary by me for Univision on peace activist and poet Javier Sicilia and his potential to create real change here in Mexico. Watch the video here on Univision’s...
View ArticleTime: In Veracruz, the troops move in and tourists stay away
October 25 2011 – A dispatch for Time from a recent trip to Veracruz: In touristy Veracruz, Mexico, drug-related violence has spiked. After a recent wave of 80 killings, the federal government sent...
View ArticleTime: Evidence of Killings and Disappearances by Mexico’s Security Forces
November 11 2011 – The grieving families of six men who disappeared from a Mexican night club speak to TIME. Their story is among 170 cases of killing, torture and disappearances documented in a new...
View ArticleAFP: ‘Miss Bala’ reflects drug reality for women in Mexico
November 30 2011 – Miss Bala, a Mexican movie that is a current Oscar hopeful and inspired by true events, follows beauty queen Laura Guerrero in her violent downward spiral into the hands of...
View ArticleUnivision: Young angels in Juarez battle the city’s demons
February 6th 2012 – In Ciudad Juarez, the violence is a constant, human suffering a given, and trying to understand why the city has so many problems depends on who you ask. The people who live there...
View ArticleAFP: El Paso gives refuge to Mexico’s human rights defenders
Spanish Video below. Deborah Bonello for AFP EL PASO, Texas. March 13th 20120 — El Paso, one of the safest US cities, now hosts a growing number of human rights activists seeking to escape persecution...
View ArticleAFP: Cassez case throws spotlight on Mexico’s media trials
March 20 2012 – The staged arrest of French woman Florence Cassez in Mexico back in 2005 puts an uncomfortable spotlight on the practice of putting suspects in front of the media even before they go in...
View ArticleUnivision: Javier Valdez is risking his life to report from El Chapo’s backyard
July 26 2012 – Last week, seven police and four gunmen were killed during an operation near a tourist site known as El Fuerte in Culiacán, Sinaloa. On Sunday, five men were killed and three more...
View ArticleUnivision: Lured by narcos, Sinaloa’s schools try to get kids to say no
August 22nd 2012, Culiacan, Sinaloa – Mirna Cartagena knows all about regret. Now in her early thirties, she spent most of her twenties in jail after she was caught trying to transport cocaine and...
View ArticleBBC: The child victims of Mexico’s drug war
June 19 2013 – In Mexico around 25,000 people have disappeared since the drug war began six years ago. Many are children being sold into sex slavery or forced to work for the drug cartels. Will Grant...
View ArticleThe Economist: Mexico’s public and private sectors fight drug violence
June 19 2013 – Mexico’s wealthiest city Monterrey has been plagued by violent crime in recent years. But a new initiative between the government and local businesses i starting to clean up the streets....
View ArticleBBC: Mexican vigilantes clash with soldiers in Michoacan state
January 15th 2014 – Vigilantes in Mexico have clashed with soldiers deployed in the western state of Michoacan to disarm the groups, who last week launched an offensive against the Knights Templar drug...
View ArticleGlobalPost: How Mexico’s west was won – it took a village, and plenty of AK-47s
February 20th 2014 – The story of how vigilante militias took their western Mexican towns back from Knights Templar meth lords — for now. Produced, shot and edited for GlobalPost.
View ArticleBBC: The country where exorcisms are on the rise (production)
26 November 2013 – Catholic priests in Mexico say the country is under attack by Satan, and that more exorcists are needed to fight him. This attack, they say, is showing itself in the gruesome...
View ArticleCCTV: Mexico’s Tepito barrio supplies illegal arms trade, piracy and…..boxing.
June 2014 – In a series of exclusive reports, CCTV Mexico correspondent John Holman explores Mexico City’s Tepito neighbourhood, with series producer Ulises Escamilla Haro.
View ArticleBBC: Families wait, Mexico protests, as mass grave findings analysed
BBC: Families wait, Mexico protests, as mass grave findings analysed from Deborah Bonello on Vimeo. Shot, produced and edited for the BBC by Deborah Bonello.
View ArticleAJ+: 43 Students Are Still Missing In Mexico And People Are Angry
November 6 2014 – The mayor of Iguala and his wife, accused of orchestrating the disappearance of 43 Mexican students, have been arrested. But thousands of protesters are demanding further action....
View ArticleBBC: Mexico families search for missing relatives
3 December 2014 – The disappearance of 43 students in late September has provoked a political crisis in Mexico, but the case has also thrown new light on the estimated 26,000 people who have gone...
View ArticleSky News: Narco State: Mexico’s Drugs War
12 December 2014 – Sky’s Stuart Ramsey reports on drug cartel violence in Mexico. Local producer on this project was Ulises Escamilla Haro. More mini interviews: Mexico’s Unstoppable Cycle of Death...
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