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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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Desperation in the Desert: The Industrialization of Migrant Smuggling on the US-Mexico Border

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‘Forgiveness’ and the Sticky Question of Justice in Mexico

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Jeremy McDermottSteven Dudley by Jeremy McDermott and Steven Dudley 31 Dec 202113 Oct 2023
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Steven DudleyJeremy McDermott by Steven Dudley and Jeremy McDermott 22 Dec 202113 Oct 2023
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Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 30 Aug 202113 Oct 2023
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