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Steven Dudley

Steven Dudley

Steven Dudley is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime and a senior research fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In 2020, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), which in 2019 won the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress. Dudley is the former bureau chief of the Miami Herald in the Andean Region and the author of Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge 2004). Dudley has also reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba and Miami for National Public Radio and the Washington Post, among others. He holds a BA in Latin American History from Cornell University and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

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Cabal: Caciques and Compromises

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley and Edgar Gutiérrez 22 Jun 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inInvestigations Guatemala

Valor and the Ghost of the CIACS

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley and Edgar Gutiérrez 22 Jun 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inInvestigations Guatemala

The Road to 2023: A Peek Into Guatemala’s Criminal Past

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 21 Jun 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inInvestigations Guatemala

Perpetuating Corruption: The System Undermining the 2023 Guatemala Elections

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley, Alex Papadovassilakis and Edgar Gutiérrez 21 Jun 202313 Oct 2023
Bullet casings left behind from a CJNG vs. Gulf Cartel shootout in Tula, Tamaulipas in 2022.
Posted inNews Gulf Cartel

Gulf Cartel Still ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ on US-Mexico Border: Homeland Security

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley and Parker Asmann 18 May 202313 Oct 2023
Soldados de México en una camioneta
Posted inNews

Is Mexico’s CJNG Pushing the Gulf Cartel From Tamaulipas?

Steven Dudley by Parker Asmann and Steven Dudley 17 May 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inInvestigations Fentanyl

How Fentanyl Is Synthesized in Mexico

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 9 May 202329 Jan 2024
Posted inInvestigations Fentanyl

Precursors and Mexico’s Synthetic Drug Trade: Summary and Major Findings

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 8 May 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inInvestigations Synthetic Drugs

Precursors and Mexico’s Synthetic Drug Trade: Summary and Major Findings

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 8 May 202329 Jan 2024
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram speaks after the US Justice Department indicts Mexico's Chapitos.
Posted inNews Chapitos

5 Takeaways From US Indictments of Chapitos, Associates

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 17 Apr 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inNews Fentanyl

What Mexico’s Posture on Fentanyl Says About US Relations

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 21 Mar 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inNews Fentanyl

After US Hearing on Fentanyl, Is It Time to Retire the Word ‘Cartel’?

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 22 Feb 202313 Oct 2023

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