Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartel

The State of Democracy Lecture Series will host Ioan Grillo, a journalist and writer based in Mexico City, working for outlets including the New York Times, France 24 and National Geographic. He has been covering Latin America since 2001 for news media outlets such as TIME Magazine, Esquire, CNN, Reuters, Al Jazeera, the Houston Chronicle and the Associated Press.

Grillo is author of the book, “Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.” “The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner-city America and across the border as Mexico’s powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren’t often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-but they should be.”

In Grillo’s groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth.