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The Unrefusable Payment

The Unrefusable Payment

Coercion, Community, and the Limits of Reporting in Cartel-Adjacent Mexico Start with a small sum of money and a person who cannot afford to refuse it. That is the whole subject, compressed. In the regions of Mexico where organized crime shadows daily life, bribery is rarely the crisp transaction
Jacqualine Roche 27 Aug 2026
Selling Them a Story

Selling Them a Story

“For harm to be investigated, it has to be made legible first. This is about the cost of shaping your own experience into something an institution will agree to recognize.”
Jacqualine Roche 13 Aug 2026
What Counts as Evidence

What Counts as Evidence

“I lived in a small town in Nayarit for eight years. The worst of it happened during the year and a half after my husband left, and I’ve never been able to prove any of it.”
Jacqualine Roche 01 Aug 2026

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