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Talking Heads: The Murder of the Young in Mexico

VICE News sat down with Alma Guillermoprieto to discuss how systemic corruption and an ill-conceived war on drugs has created an anarchic setting for indiscriminate violence in Mexico.

VICE News and the New York Review of Books have partnered to create Talking Heads, a series about the big issues of the day as seen by the Review's distinguished contributors.

In this episode, Alma Guillermoprieto discusses her article "Mexico: The Murder of the Young," in which she follows the story of 43 students from a teacher's college in the Mexican state of Guerrero who disappeared last year at the hands of corrupt police and a local drug gang. She describes how the search for their bodies revealed that much of the state is a gravesite, and reflects on what distinguished this event from the many thousands of murders that preceded it.

VICE News sat down with Guillermoprieto to discuss how systemic corruption and an ill-conceived war on drugs has created an anarchic setting for indiscriminate violence in Mexico.

Read Alma Guillermoprieto's essay, "Mexico: The Murder of the Young"

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