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Laurent Thomet
Correspondent based in Mexico City.
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Treading softly among ghosts

Friday 30 December 2016

"You would think that the one place where a Mexican drug baron could do you no harm is a cemetery. Where he is dead and buried," writes correspondent Laurent Thomet.

"But in Mexico's dangerous and often surreal underworld, even the ghosts of cartel kingpins can haunt journalists."

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AFP / Yuri Cortez

Santa Muerte and its hold over Mexico

Tuesday 8 March 2016

From members of drug cartels to ordinary people, millions of Mexicans all over the country pray to Santa Muerte, the Grim Reaper-like Death Saint, AFP's Mexico correspondent Laurent Thomet reports.

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