Cocaine Cowboys
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
In an excerpt from Miami Babylon, Gerald Posner recalls 1980s South Beach, when it was a Wild West of drug cartels and sex parties that made Scarface look tame.
Anatomy of a Massacre
Rick Outzen is publisher and editor of Independent News, the alternative newsweekly for Northwest Florida.
New witness reports give horrific details about the murder of the Florida parents of 17, including an underworld motive, the Billings' last words-and the mute 10-year-old son who saw it all and could only sign for help.
Mexican Mafia Connection
Rick Outzen is publisher and editor of Independent News, the alternative newsweekly for Northwest Florida.
Investigators have linked Mexican organized crime to the murders of the parents of 17, reveals Rick Outzen, perhaps answering the case's riddle: Why was a Florida couple shot at home execution-style?
President, Murderer, or Both?
Constantino Diaz-Duran is a writer living in Manhattan. He has written for the New York Post, the Washington Blade, El Diario NY and the Orange County Register.
The Guatemalan president's alleged role in a recent murder there shows how Mexico's drug violence is infecting other parts of Latin America-and threatening to destabilize the entire region.
Flu's Biggest Victim
Andrés Martinez is the director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program at the New America Foundation. Previously, he was editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times. He has also served as assistant editorial page editor at The New York Times. He is the author of 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas.
Drug cartels, earthquakes-and now a possible pandemic. But worst casualty in all this, Andres Martinez says, might be Mexico's public perception.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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