Gold, Guns, and Cartels: The Battle for a Billion-Dollar Mine

A gold mine in Mexico's Sonoran desert was taken over by the sons of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Mexican officials and generals said they would help an American businessman reclaim the mine—after hefty bribes.

For Alejandro Sánchez, reclaiming the mine was more than a business proposition. It was a reckoning with the past and a chance to pay back an orphanage that raised him.