Javier Valdez Cárdenas was an award-winning journalist and author who covered drug trafficking and organized crime in Mexico. His numerous articles have been published throughout Mexico and in such periodicals as National Geographic. His many published books include Miss Narco. Valdez Cárdenas became the sixth reporter to be murdered in Mexico thus far in 2017 when, on May 15, he was fatally shot near the offices of the newspaper he founded, Riodoce, in Sinaloa.Everard Meade is Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego's Kroc School of Peace Studies and its certificate programs in Applied Peace Education in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Over the past decade, Javier Valdez Cardenas has shown himself to be one of Mexico's bravest and most awesomely steadfast reporters, eyeball to eyeball with a menace most of us in the United States cannot conceive of. We should welcome that his work is now finally available in English and consume it as though we're famished."" - Sam Quinones, journalist and author of Dream Land: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Javier Valdez Cárdenas was an award-winning journalist and author who covered drug trafficking and organized crime in Mexico. His numerous articles have been published throughout Mexico and in such periodicals as National Geographic. His many published books include Miss Narco. Valdez Cárdenas became the sixth reporter to be murdered in Mexico thus far in 2017 when, on May 15, he was fatally shot near the offices of the newspaper he founded, Riodoce, in Sinaloa.Everard Meade is Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego's Kroc School of Peace Studies and its certificate programs in Applied Peace Education in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Over the past decade, Javier Valdez Cardenas has shown himself to be one of Mexico's bravest and most awesomely steadfast reporters, eyeball to eyeball with a menace most of us in the United States cannot conceive of. We should welcome that his work is now finally available in English and consume it as though we're famished."" - Sam Quinones, journalist and author of Dream Land: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Javier Valdez Cárdenas was an award-winning journalist and author who covered drug trafficking and organized crime in Mexico. His numerous articles have been published throughout Mexico and in such periodicals as National Geographic. His many published books include Miss Narco. Valdez Cárdenas became the sixth reporter to be murdered in Mexico thus far in 2017 when, on May 15, he was fatally shot near the offices of the newspaper he founded, Riodoce, in Sinaloa.Everard Meade is Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego's Kroc School of Peace Studies and its certificate programs in Applied Peace Education in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Over the past decade, Javier Valdez Cardenas has shown himself to be one of Mexico's bravest and most awesomely steadfast reporters, eyeball to eyeball with a menace most of us in the United States cannot conceive of. We should welcome that his work is now finally available in English and consume it as though we're famished."" - Sam Quinones, journalist and author of Dream Land: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic