The People of Mexico Deserve Better: What Will It Take to Clean Up the Cartels?

Mexico City is hands down one of my favorite places in the world—probably my third after Sydney and New York. There’s an energy there that’s hard to describe, a vibrancy that pulls you in. The people, the food, the history, the music—it’s all intoxicating. Life in Mexico feels more present. I remember sitting in a bar, struck by how not a single person was glued to their phone. Instead, people were talking, laughing, dancing, enjoying the moment. That’s what makes it so painful to sit across from families who have lost their loved ones to cartel violence. Parents clutching photographs of their children, desperate for answers they’ll never get. The scale of barbarity is unfathomable, and the lack of help is even worse.

The people of Mexico deserve better.