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Ioan Grillo

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Journalist based in Mexico, focused on crime, drugs + gangster politics. Director of CrashOut Media, author of El Narco trilogy. Time, NYT, HBO+ Still doing it.
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Un Mundial de esperanzas, sueños (y avaricia)

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By Ioan Grillo 
| CrashOut
To read the original story in English, click here. La imagen más conmovedora del Mundial de 2026 hasta el momento fue la de los aficionados suecos caminando con sus camisetas amarillas brillantes hacia el partido contra Túnez en Monterrey, pasando junto a la madre de un hijo desaparecido que protestaba. Varios aficionados suecos, hombres y mujeres, jóvenes y mayores, se detuvieron y la abrazaron.
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A World Cup of Hopes, Dreams (and Money Grabbing)

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By Ioan Grillo 
| CrashOut
The most touching image of the 2026 World Cup so far was of Swedish fans walking in their bright yellow team shirts to their game against Tunisia in Monterrey and passing the mother of a disappeared son protesting. Various Swedish fans, men and women, young and old, stopped and hugged her. I’ve interviewed many of the mothers and fathers of the more than 100,000 missing in Mexico (many who were dragged away by cartel gunmen) and you feel them carry a devastating pain.
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Can Cuba resist America? The people are hungry and desperate Original

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By Ioan Grillo 
| UnHerd
'This is the worst crisis since the Revolution.' (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty) “This is the worst crisis since the Revolution,” says Alvaro Miranda, 57, a history teacher standing on the sun-soaked streets of Old Havana between crumbling white buildings. His face looks gaunt and malnourished, his eyes sunken. “I am eating one meal a day with whatever we can get. I let my children have most the food.
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