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Jared Olson

San Pedro Sula
As seen in: Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera English, Substack, VICE, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Intercept, The Nation, The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Truthdig and
Covers:  Human rights, violence, social movements, the environment, militarization, migration. I also write literary essays and translate.
•Writer, investigative journalist •Correspondent for @AFP for Mexico and Central America •investigations/essays/reportage: @theintercept @thebafflermag etc

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Independent investigative and explanatory journalist covering human rights, violence, and the environment. Based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and Mexico City.

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In Honduras Land Battles, Paramilitaries Infiltrate Local Groups - Then Kill Their Leaders

In Honduras Land Battles, Paramilitaries Infiltrate Local Groups - Then Kill Their Leaders

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MS-13 and Trump Backed the Same Presidential Candidate in Honduras

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By Jared Olson
| The Intercept Verified
Gangsters from MS-13, a Trump-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, intimidated Hondurans not to vote for the left-leaning presidential candidate, 10 eyewitness sources told The Intercept, in most cases urging them to instead cast their ballots in last Sunday’s election for the right-wing National Party candidate — the same candidate endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Hondurans Called Right-Wing Ex-President a “Narco-Dictator.” Trump Plans to Pardon Him — but Threatens War on Venezuela

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By Jared Olson, Noah Hurowitz Verified
| The Intercept Verified
In a 26th floor courtroom overlooking Manhattan’s frigid winter skyline, dozens of immigrants sat in on the trial of their former president, the once untouchable symbol of a “narco-dictatorship” that reorganized of the government’s judicial, police, and military leadership to collude with drug traffickers. It wasn’t Nicolás Maduro — though the Venezuelan president had likewise been indicted in the Southern District of New York.
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Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory.

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By Jared Olson
| The Intercept Verified
EL GUAYABO, Michoacán, Mexico — The armored vehicle, or what now remained of it, lay abandoned in the road where a landmine had blown it up. The bodies of the vehicle’s occupants, cartel sicarios who had been killed as they tried to flee, were nowhere to be found when we examined the incinerated wreckage several days later. Neither, though, were most residents of the surrounding village, who had fled en masse to escape the same fate.
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What's your favorite social network?

None, I'm trying to focus better for presence and reading. If I had to choose though: instagram.

Why did you become a journalist?

To use a love of writing to tell meaningful stories of suffering and social struggle.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Put yourself out there in the thick of it, take risks, and most of all: read before you write.