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b'Ginger Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter at ProPublica. Her most recent article is "How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico."\\n\\n \\u201cHow many times have I written the phrase \\u2018a town that was controlled by drug traffickers?\' I had no idea what that really meant. What does it mean to live in a town that\\u2019s controlled by drug traffickers? And how does it get that way? One of the things I was hoping that we could do by having the people who actually lived through that explain it to us was that\\u2014to bring you close to that and say, \\u2018No, here\\u2019s what that means.\\u2019\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Casper, and Outside the Box for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@gingerthomp1\\nThompson on Longform\\n[01:30] "How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico" (ProPublica / National Geographic \\u2022 Jun 2017)\\n[01:45] Thompson\\u2019s Archive at The New York Times\\n[01:45] "Trafficking In Terror" (New Yorker \\u2022 Dec 2015)\\n[02:30] readthissummer.com\\n[02:45] Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (Luke Dittrich \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2016)\\n[02:45] Luke Dittrich on the Longform Podcast\\n[05:15] Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Svetlana Alexievich \\u2022 Picador \\u2022 2006)\\n[34:30] "A Drug Family in the Winner\\u2019s Circle" (New York Times \\u2022 Jun 2012)\\n[38:45] "Nafta to Open Foodgates, Engulfing Rural Mexico" (New York Times \\u2022 Dec 2002)\\n[38:45] Thompson\\u2019s \\u201cFatal secretes in Honduras\\u201d series (with Gary Cohn \\u2022 Baltimore Sun \\u2022 1995)\\n[43:15] "Calder\\xf3n Wins Narrow Victory in Mexico Election" (with James C. McKinley Jr. \\u2022 New York Times \\u2022 Jul 2006)\\n[45:30] "Mexico City Journal; The Rich, Famous and Aghast: A Peep-Show Book" (New York Times \\u2022 Sep 2002)\\n[46:30] "Richest Mexican talks equity\\u2014 Business International Herald Tribune" (New York Times \\u2022 Jun 2006)\\n[52:15] "Reaping What Was Sown On the Old Plantation; A Landowner Tells Her Family\\u2019s Truth. A Park Ranger Wants a Broader Truth." (New York Times \\u2022 Jun 2000)\\n[55:30] "\\u2018There\\u2019s No Real Fight Against Drugs\\u2019" (Atlantic \\u2022 Jul 2015)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'