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She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter

2024/2/20
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Miriam Rodriguez, driven by the loss of her daughter to the Zetas cartel, embarked on a relentless quest for justice. She used traditional investigative techniques, leveraging social media and local knowledge, to identify and confront the cartel members responsible.

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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.

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