The Ripple Effect Podcast #181 (Ioan Grillo | Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields & the New Politics of Latin America)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Bryan, Society & Culture, Callen, Philosophy, Carlin, Bill, 6, Dave

4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Ioan Grillo is a British investigative journalist and writer based in Mexico City. He has been covering Latin America since 2001 for news media including Time Magazine, CNN, Reuters, The Houston Chronicle, The Associated Press, GlobalPost, France 24, CBC, The Sunday Telegraph, Letras Libres and many others. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Guardian. Ioan is also the author of the books Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America (released 2016) and El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency (released 2011).

As well as following drug trafficking empires, Ioan also covers the other major issues of Latin America such as natural disasters (including the Haiti earthquake), the battle between left and right (including the Honduras coup), and the vast human wave of emigration to El Norte. He was a consultant for the International Crisis Group for its first two reports on Mexico. He also loves music and covers it whenever he gets a chance. He co-directed a series of three short films with John Dickie, which all include a good dose of Latin American hip hop. They are Barrios Beats and Blood, Bajamar Ballad, and The Gangsters’ Granny.

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0:00.0	believe in the ripple effect.
0:25.6	The ripple fact. I'm I'm I'm
0:38.3	I'm
0:39.3	I'm
0:40.3	I'm What's up?
1:07.9	Come Stas, Moogues?
1:10.2	So Riccadou Vrendes, also known as Ricky Vranes.
1:13.3	And today we have a great podcast for you.
1:17.0	Joanne Grillo, he's an author, journalist, reporter.
1:21.6	Since the early 2000s, I believe 2001, he's been reporting in Latin America on the drug problem, human trafficking,
1:31.3	drug trafficking, guns, violence, murders, everything in between. Really interesting
1:38.0	conversation, really interesting books. One is called El Narco inside Mexico's criminal insurgency, and the other one's called
1:46.0	Gangster Warlords, Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the new politics of Latin America.
1:50.9	And we really go into some of the history of Latin America, some of the issues in Latin America,
1:54.7	how to fix some of these issues.
1:56.5	And we have a really fun discussion because I think one thing we learned that when when you get two people that are have no dog in the race and are willing just to have an open
2:05.7	discussion you realize that there's a lot more questions than than answers and there's not
2:11.7	necessarily a real understanding on how to solve some of these problems.
2:18.8	But just some of his experiences, some of the stuff he's been through,
2:21.5	it's absolutely mind-blowing.
2:23.3	What a great guy.
2:24.3	What a great discussion.
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