Claudio Lomnitz

Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia. His most recent book is Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico. (September 2024)

Gregor Samsa in Mexico

“Truth—open, public truth—is under attack both by organized crime and by the state itself.”

August 31, 2024

Mexico: Anatomy of a Mass Murder

Marcela Turati’s account of the massacres in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, is arguably the most thorough piece of investigative journalism yet produced about Mexico’s brutal political economy.

San Fernando, Última Parada: Viaje al crimen autorizado en Tamaulipas [San Fernando, Last Stop: A Journey Through Organized Crime in Tamaulipas]

by Marcela Turati

September 19, 2024 issue

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