Welcome to the Guadalajara Geopolitics podcast.

Today our guest is Duncan Tucker, a British investigative journalist.

He writes for UK Independent, Vice and Al Jazeera, among others.

And he links his stories to the tequila files.com.

I recently discovered your work, and I was very impressed.

Now I read your pieces as they come out.

You've been based here in Guadalajara, Mexico, for, I guess, half a decade now, five years.

And, well, what's your story briefly, and how did you get into journalism and end up in Mexico?

Well, I first came here in 2009 on a study abroad program to learn Spanish and I was studying at the University of Guadalajara. And I was here for a year and I ended up doing an internship at a local newspaper called the Guadalajara Reporter,

which is an English language weekly newspaper,

which is mainly aimed at the American and Canadian expats who live in Halisco in Wadalajara,

Chapala, Puerto Vallayas, that kind of thing. And so I went back to England to finish my studies

after that, and when I graduated, they had a vacancy at the newspaper.

So I flew back out here to start work with them.

And I was working at the reporter for about two, two and a half years.

And since then, I've just been working freelance basically with the independent Al Jazeera, VICE, and a few other

websites.

And on your website and as well with a lot of your articles, your focus is on Mexican

current affairs and well, oh boy, where do we begin?

So I guess where would you begin and how do you guess, well, where would you begin?

And how do you view Mexico?

What issues are you most passionate about?

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