Mexico’s deadly elections: Crime groups target candidates in a fight for turf Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post June 2, 2021

A mobster’s online confessions are shaking Erdogan’s government. Turkey is riveted. Kareem Fahim Washington Post May 24, 2021

Why Nigerian schoolchildren keep getting kidnapped: A brutal business model that pays Joe Parkinson and Gbenga Akingbule Wall Street Journal March 23, 2021
Criminal gangs are earning millions of dollars by taking schoolchildren hostage, sometimes cooperating with Boko Haram, further destabilizing countries in the region.