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Bunch of new articles, Narco Rap, Cowboy Booze, and Magic Mushrooms

Nathaniel Janowitz : February 9, 2018 12:21 am :  Blog/News/Updates/Whatever




Been a while since my last post. Check out a few of my most recent features by clicking here.
I checked out magic mushroom culture in the Oaxacan sierra for the October issue of High Times magazine; traveled to the border of Mexico’s most dangerous state to learn about Narco Rap and spend time with MC’s rhyming for drug cartels; drank a whole bunch of Sotol, the dangerously delicious cousin of tequila and Mezcal; and a few more reportajes for ESPN. CHECK THEM OUT


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New work with ESPN

Nathaniel Janowitz : July 26, 2017 10:51 pm :  Blog/News/Updates/Whatever




The past few months I’ve been working a lot with ESPN, writing longform features from throughout Mexico. I’ve spent time with the up-and-coming fighters and old school trainers in Mexico City’s famous boxing barrios, shadowed the two-time champions of Mexico’s new American football league, and travelled to the Oaxacan sierra to learn about it’s barefooted ballers at the Indigenous Basketball Academy of Mexico. Check them all out and more by clicking here.


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2016 has been a BIG YEAR

Nathaniel Janowitz : October 31, 2016 7:23 pm :  Blog/News/Updates/Whatever




Fell quite behind on updating the blog aspect of my website after I became a full time staff reporter for VICE News. But just to update, in the past year I’ve published a number of articles that I am incredibly proud of.
From going inside Mexico’s abusive and secretive drug rehab centers, to investigating PTSD in children in Juarez; exploring the poppy fields of Guerrero’s sierra, and having the boss of a team of assassins for the Zetas implicate a governor for cartel connections who has since disappeared and is in hiding — these are just a few of my recent features.
READ THEM ALL AND MORE HERE.


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A Turf War in a Previously Dreamy Coastal City Points to Splits in Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel

Nathaniel Janowitz : November 24, 2015 10:27 pm :  Blog/News/Updates/Whatever




New article by me on VICE News.

 
The capital of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur is named La Paz, or Peace, and it’s garnered a reputation over the years for its tranquility, whale watching, and sunset dining in restaurants along the coastal boardwalk. For a long time it seemed like La Paz was immune to the drug violence that has plagued the nearby states of Sinaloa and Sonora — across the Gulf of California — or further north in the border city of Tijuana. 
Not any more.
“La Paz is no longer La Paz, it lost its name after these events,” said Gerardo Zúñiga Pacheco, the La Paz correspondent for the Tijuana-based weekly magazine Zeta, renowned for it’s coverage of the drug war.
Zuñiga was referring to a 14 month period during which there were at least 183 murders in La Paz, culminating with 23 dead in August 2015, and 29 more in September. The city of around 200,000 people was used to a maximum of about one or two murders a month. READ MORE.

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New feature of mine on VICE.com about Nova Scotia’s own Marriott and Melvin families

Nathaniel Janowitz : November 17, 2015 8:01 pm :  Blog/News/Updates/Whatever




The Bizarre, Violent Story of Nova Scotia’s Real-Life Trailer Park Boys
… and after a series of arrests, are the Marriotts and Melvins finally finished killing?

 
When the police finally got Jimmy Melvin Jr. out of a seedy motel room in Bedford, Nova Scotia following a tense six-hour standoff in July 2006, it was too late to save face.
Melvin Jr. had been a wanted man for weeks, and police had asked the public for help in tracking him down, labelling him as armed and dangerous. But when he ended up in police custody after being picked up in a bar-fight, he pulled a typical Ricky-from-Trailer-Park-Boys maneuver, tricking the cops by lying about his identity and presenting a fake ID. While in the drunk tank in Digby, he then told officers he had information about the wanted Jimmy Melvin Jr.’s whereabouts. The misled officers transferred him to the Halifax Police, who spent several hours hunting for Jimmy Melvin Jr. with Jimmy Melvin Jr.
Only after releasing him did they realize the man who they had been cruising around with was actually the man they were looking for in the first place: a person of interest in the recent murder of a member of the Marriott family—a neighboring clan that had worked both with and against Melvin’s family for years in the local drug trade.
At the time, the two clans were in the midst of a multi-generational feud, one that had come to an explosive new peak when both Jimmy Melvin Sr. and Jimmy Melvin Jr. had been released from prison earlier in 2006. And though it appears that the two families had at one point been aligned (via a crack ring circa 2002), the subsequent murder of a Marriott made it clear this alliance was no more.
With Melvin Jr. finally arrested, the cops had gotten their man. But this would hardly be the end of the saga, nor any sort of new beginning. Just another in a long line of ridiculous and bloody moments that turned the Spryfield wars between the Marriotts and Melvins into a Hatfield-McCoy type legend. READ MORE.

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Bunch of new articles, Narco Rap, Cowboy Booze, and Magic Mushrooms

New work with ESPN

2016 has been a BIG YEAR

A Turf War in a Previously Dreamy Coastal City Points to Splits in Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel

New feature of mine on VICE.com about Nova Scotia’s own Marriott and Melvin families

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