[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.

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