| After the death of a reporter who investigated narcopolitics, her colleagues formed a secret collective to bring the killers to justice—and challenge a culture of impunity.  Photograph by Natalie Keyssar for The New Yorker Mexico is a dangerous country for journalists. As the writer Melissa del Bosque details in a harrowing and deeply reported new piece in this week’s issue, more than a hundred members of the media have been killed or have disappeared since 2000—victims, in most cases, of the drug cartels and their accomplices. “According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, no peacetime government in the world provides less redress for such killings than Mexico,” del Bosque writes. “In the past decade, by C.P.J.’s count, there have been more unsolved journalist murders in Mexico than in Syria, South Sudan, and Myanmar combined.” Yet, after a tenacious reporter named Miroslava Breach Velducea was gunned down in front of her home, in 2017, there was reason to hope that this time might be different. The public had been shocked by the crime, and the local government appeared committed to finding those responsible. Even so, it would take the dogged work of a collective of more than thirty journalists, working at great personal risk in what they dubbed an “investigative bunker,” to spur the case on. This remarkable story shows how far the reporters have gone to uncover the truth, even as the end goal of securing justice keeps moving further away. Help shape the future of The New Yorker. Take a brief survey » | 
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