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Við ætlum að byrja í Mexíkó. Þú ræddir í vetur Birta við Azam Ahmed, blaðamann á New York Times, í vetur um bók sem hann skrifaði um sögu Miriam Rodríguez. Hún er frá Mexíkó og dóttur hennar var rænt og hún drepin af mönnum sem tilheyra skipulögðum glæpasamtökum. Hún ákvað að taka málin í sínar hendur og við fjölluðum um sögu hennar en einnig miklum áhrifum glæpagengja í Mexíkó. Þó einhver árangur hafi náðst í að draga úr áhrifum þeirra eru skipulögð glæpasamtök fimmti stærsti atvinnurekandinn í Mexíkó. Um 175 þúsund eru talin starfa innan þeirra vébanda. Dönsk stjórnvöld komu getnaðarvarnarlykkjunni fyrir í líkömum kvenna og stúlkna á Grænlandi, án vitundar þeirra, til að hægja á fólksfjölgun og var tilrauninni lýst sem vel heppnaðri. Formaður mannréttindaráðs Grænlands segir mikilvægt að rannsaka málið ofan í kjölinn og skera úr um hvort þessi mannréttindabrot beri að skilgreina sem þjóðarmorð. Sumar stúlknanna hafi aðeins verið ellefu ára gamlar. Dagný Hulda Erlendsdóttir fjallaði um eitt umdeildasta mál sem hefur komið þar upp í langan tíma.
When members of the fearsome and brutal Zetas cartel kidnapped her daughter, Miriam Rodriguez did what they asked and paid the ransom. But it wasn't enough, and she never saw her daughter again. Fed up with a lack of help from the police, she went on a one-woman crusade for justice, tracking down the men responsible for killing her daughter by any means possible. New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed joins us to talk about his new book, Fear is Just a Word, about Miriam Rodriguez and the quest for hard to find justice again Mexico's cartels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No one takes on the cartel and comes away unscathed. Miriam Rodriguez understood that from the start. In the second and final part of this extraordinary True Spies story, The New York Times' Azam Ahmed picks up the story of the housekeeper who sought revenge on Mexico's notorious Zetas. Having discovered the grim truth of what happened to her kidnapped daughter, Miriam Rodriguez makes it her life's mission to bring down the criminals responsible for her murder – becoming increasingly adept at highwire deep cover work in the process. She will not rest until the Zetas have been made to pay – but her bold quest comes with an enormous personal price tag. From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this two-part True Spies story, The New York Times' Azam Ahmed tells the unbelievable tale of Miriam Rodriguez, a 56 year-old housekeeper turned rogue agent – and thorn in the side of one of Mexico's most feared gangs. In Part One, we meet Miriam as her world is turned upside down by news of her daughter's kidnapping. Soon, she embarks on a quest for answers and for vengeance. It will bring her face to face with the Zetas – a powerful and dangerous criminal organization who terrorize Miriam's native San Fernando with impunity. But in this grieving mother of three, they may have found their match. From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hvað gerir móðir þegar dóttur hennar er rænt og hún drepin af mönnum sem tilheyra skipulögðum glæpasamtökum? Vitandi af gjörspilltu og um margt lömuðu stjórnkerfi heimalands síns ákvað hin mexíkóska Miriam Rodríguez að taka málin í sínar hendur og hefna dóttur sinnar. Saga hennar er sögð í nýlegri bók eftir Azam Ahmed, blaðamann á New York Times. Við ræðum við Azam í Heimskviðum í dag en í bókinni er einnig sagt frá uppgangi og miklum áhrifum glæpagengja í Mexíkó. Þó einhver árangur hafi náðst í að draga úr áhrifum þeirra eru skipulögð glæpasamtök fimmti stærsti atvinnurekandinn í Mexíkó. Um 175 þúsund eru talin starfa innan þeirra vébanda. Svo fjöllum við um sögu einnar þekktustu fjölskyldu Noregs. Sennilega þeirrar þekktustu fyrir utan norsku konungsfjölskylduna. Það er Ingibrigtsen fjölskyldan en í henni eru þrír af heimsins bestu hlaupurum og þeir sökuðu á dögunum föður sinn, sem hefur þjálfað þá frá barnæsku, um að beita sig andlegu og líkamlegu ofbeldi frá því þeir voru smástrákar. Lögreglurannsókn stendur nú yfir og þetta hefur klofið fjölskylduna sem norska þjóðin hefur fylgt síðustu ár í sjónvarpsþáttunum Team Ingebrigtsen. Yngsti bróðirinn, Jacob, er einn besti hlaupari sem Norðmenn hafa alið og hann ætlar að freista þess í París í sumar að verja ólympíugullið sem hann náði á leikunum í Tokyo 2021, en það gæti reynst honum erfitt án þjálfarans og pabba síns sér við hlið.
For tens of thousands of people, living in Mexico today means living in a country where criminal violence begets state-sponsored violence, and where law and justice have so failed ordinary citizens that they often take matters into their own hands. In his new book Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690664/fear-is-just-a-word-by-azam-ahmed/), Azam Ahmed chronicles the tale of a mother whose desperation led her to do just that. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss those who live at the mercy of the drug cartels.
This week Denae tells Kim about the badass vigilante mother, Miriam Rodriguez. Sources: All That's Interesting Article by Kaleena Fraga: Miriam Rodríguez, The Mother Who Took Down Her Daughter's Killers The New York Times article: She Stalked Her Daughter's Killers Across Mexico, One by One by Azam Ahmed https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html The official count of disappeared people in Mexico could be an underestimate, say UN and advocates | AP News Missing Persons by State 2023
Britain's King Charles took the stage at the UN Climate Summit in Dubai, saying the world is approaching "dangerous uncharted territory" as the climate crisis deepens – with 2023 set to be the warmest year yet. Ahead of the conference Bianna spoke with former White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy, to get her steer on the importance of this year's COP. Also on today's show: CNN Pentagon Correspondent Oren Liebermann; NYT investigative correspondent Azam Ahmed; NYT reporter Reed Abelson and KFF Health News reporter Jordan Rau discuss their series "Dying Broke"; 18-year-old banjo virtuoso Nora Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matt Crawford speaks with journalist and author Azam Ahmed about his book, Fear is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance. This is the riveting true story of Miriam Rodriquez, a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter. Ahmed brings us into this family's home to share in their pain and anguish as they search for their daughter's kidnappers. We often hear about these horrible acts on the news but manage to turn a blind eye, Ahmed makes it impossible in this impossible to put down read.
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Azam Ahmed is an international investigative correspondent for the New York Times. He was previously the Times' bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, where he produced a series of stories on violence that was awarded the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, the Michael Kelly Award and the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism. His work also included a series of groundbreaking stories on the illegal use of spyware known as Pegasus in Mexico. Prior to that, Mr. Ahmed was the bureau chief for the Times in Kabul, Afghanistan. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a global investigative correspondent for The New York Times “Azam Ahmed has written a page-turning mystery but also a stunning, color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town.”—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Directorate S Fear Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen. He is her target number eleven, a member of the drug cartel that has terrorized and controlled what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of San Fernando, Mexico, almost one hundred miles from the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair red as a disguise, Miriam watches, waits, and then orchestrates the arrest of this man, exacting her own version of justice. Woven into this deeply researched, moving account is the story of how cartels built their power in Mexico, escalated the use of violence, and kidnapped and murdered tens of thousands. Karen was just one of the many people who disappeared, and Miriam, a brilliant, strategic, and fearless woman, begged for help from the authorities and paid ransom money she could not afford in hopes of saving her daughter. When that failed, she decided that “fear is just a word,” and began a crusade to track down Karen's killers and to help other victimized families in their search for justice. What do people do when their country and the peaceful town where they have grown up become unrecognizable, suddenly places of violence and fear? Azam Ahmed takes us into the grieving of a country and a family to tell the mesmerizing story of a brave and brilliant woman determined to find out what happened to her daughter, and to see that the criminals who murdered her were punished. Fear Is Just a Word is an unforgettable and moving portrait of a woman, a town, and a country, and of what can happen when violent forces leave people to seek justice on their own. Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page
EPISODE 1852: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Azam Ahmed, author of FEAR IS JUST A WORD, about he story of a missing daughter, a violent Cartel and a mother's quest for vengeanceAzam Ahmed is an international investigative correspondent for The New York Times. He is the former New York Times bureau chief in Mexico, and previously was the New York Times bureau chief in Afghanistan.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
In his new book, “Fear is Just a Word,” Azam Ahmed chronicles the years-long journey of Miriam Rodriguez, who took it upon herself to find justice for her daughter after she was kidnapped in 2014 by one of the most violent gangs in Mexico. Rodriguez would eventually lead law enforcement to arrest nearly a dozen cartel members, doing much of the investigation and research herself, despite great risk to her and her family. Ahmed, a global investigative correspondent for the New York Times, shares that story with us, and explains how the cartels came to hold so much power in Mexico. Guests: Azam Ahmed, international investigative correspondent, The New York Times
Azam Ahmed is an international investigative correspondent for The New York Times. His new book is Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance. “I think the fundamental question I always ask when I go into a new place, whether I'm covering currencies, or hedge funds, or geopolitics in Afghanistan, or the war—it's what does this mean to the world right now? What does the world need to know and how does it fit into that space?” Show notes: @azamsahmed Ahmed on Longform Ahmed's New York Times archive 20:00 “For Afghan Officials, Prospect of Death Comes with Territory” (New York Times • Dec 2012) 21:00 “A Day's Toil in the Suicide Bombers' Graveyard” (New York Times • Aug 2013) 21:00 “2 Afghan Sisters, Swept Up in a Suicide Wave” (New York Times • March 2013) 25:00 “She Stalked Her Daughter's Killers Across Mexico, One by One” (New York Times • Dec 2020) 46:00 “Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Journalists and Their Families” (New York Times • June 2017) 48:00 “In Mexico, ‘It's Easy to Kill a Journalist'” (New York Times • April 2017) 54:00 “Kill, or Be Killed: Latin America's Homicide Crisis” (New York Times • May 2019–Feb 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Azam Ahmed, jefe de la corresponsalía para México, América Central y el Caribe del NYT
Leí la historia de Miriam Rodríguez revelada por Azam Ahmed en una estrujante narración en el New York Times. Miriam rastreó, persiguió, acechó, investigó, encañonó, correteó a los secuestradores y asesinos de su hija Karen hasta entregarlos a las ineficaces autoridades. Razones y pasiones
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En “Así las Cosas con Loret”, el Jefe de la Oficina del NYT en México insistió en que usó cifras oficiales
After a 35-day government shutdown over a proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Democrats and Republicans in Congress are negotiating over what border security actually means. We checked back in with Annie Brown from “The Daily,” who’s been driving the length of the border with the New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed. Their last dispatch focused on migrants in Mexico deciding whether to cross the border illegally. Now, we hear what can happen once they cross. Guests: Annie Brown, a producer for “The Daily,” and Azam Ahmed, the Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
As the shutdown continues over the president’s demand for a border wall, Annie Brown from “The Daily” joined Azam Ahmed, a New York Times reporter, and Meridith Kohut, a photojournalist, on their endeavor to drive the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border. Here’s what they saw on the first part of that journey. Guests: Annie Brown, a producer for “The Daily”; Azam Ahmed, the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean; and Meridith Kohut, a photojournalist who covers Latin America. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
A 16-year-old boy from a well-to-do Fort Worth family commits a quadruple vehicular homicide. His attorneys will argue that his overprivileged upbringing resulted in him not knowing how to discern right from wrong. The term "affluenza" was coined to describe defendants like Ethan Couch - wealthy, spoiled and held unaccountable for their bad behavior. I'll also describe how this same defense was used in 1924 to defend the wealthy teenaged murderers Leopold and Loeb. #LeopoldandLoeb #CrimeoftheCentury #EthanCouch #Affluenza Several resources were used in the research for this episode including: Manny Fernandez, Richard Perez-Pena and Azam Ahmed, The New York Times, "Ethan Couch, 'Affluenza' Teenager, Had Last Party Before Fleeing," Dec 29, 2015. Michael J. Mooney, D Magazine, "The Worst Parents Ever," May 2015. American Experience, PBS Television, "The Perfect Crime: Leopold and Loeb".
Azam Ahmed is Mexico, Central America and Caribbean bureau chief for The New York Times. While based in Afghanistan from 2012 to 2015, he wrote distinctive human interest stories at a time of waning foreign coverage. His reporting culminated in a New York Times Magazine feature about an Afghan police unit on the front lines of the fight against the Taliban. Before joining the Times, he wrote for Dow Jones newswires and the Chicago Tribune. He has also crossed over into fiction, publishing a short story in Granta. The red line I see is fact or not fact.