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Image by Alan Spearman, 2010.

Daniel Connolly has received an honorable mention in the Associated Press Managing Editor’s International Perspective contest. His Pulitzer Center-supported reporting package Blood Trade: Memphis and the Mexican Drug War, is a series of stories for The Commercial Appeal that show how the Mexican drug scourge has reached into Memphis.

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A hardened criminal from the streets of Memphis. One of the biggest drug cartels in Mexico. The corruption, cash, and demand for drugs that fuels an illegal, deadly trade -- and the consequences, for Mexicans and Americans alike.
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July 20, 2011 / Le Monde.fr
by Daniel Connolly
The money that drug users spend in your community may be helping Mexican cartels pay their employees, bribe officials, buy weapons, and hire people to torture and kill rivals.
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July 11, 2010 / Excelsior
by Daniel Connolly
Daniel Connolly's Blood Trade series for the Memphis Commericial-Appeal runs in the Mexico City-based newspaper Excelsior.