A federal trial in Memphis connects a local crime to the international drug trade.
Blood Trade: Memphis and the Mexican Drug War
The money that drug users spend in your community may be helping Mexican cartels pay their employees, bribe officials, buy weapons, and hire people to torture and kill rivals.
Daniel Connolly has received an honorable mention in the APME International Perspective contest for his Pulitzer Center-supported series "Blood Trade."
Daniel Connolly's Blood Trade series for the Memphis Commericial-Appeal runs in the Mexico City-based newspaper Excelsior.
This morning I opened up a copy of The Commercial Appeal and read the story of how gunmen had slaughtered the entire family of Melquisedet Angulo.
After we visited the chapel of Saint Death, (see previous blog post) we stopped to eat at a nearby restaurant.
We started our Sunday morning searching for a chapel where people worship Santa Muerte, or Saint Death. The Catholic Church is dominant in Mexico and doesn’t recognize this practice.
We’re working on a project that involves print and video, and my colleague Alan Spearman is looking for some dramatic images that we can use in the video.
This is the story of Craig Petties, who authorities say lived in Mexico for years and played a crucial role as wholesaler for the Beltran Leyva cartel, shipping tons of cocaine and marijuana to Tennessee and other states.
When the little girl saw the children move into the house nearby, she was excited.
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Daniel Connolly is a staff reporter for The Commercial Appeal, the leading daily newspaper in Memphis.
A Memphis native, Connolly was a Fulbright fellow in Germany in 2001-2002 and completed...