Deborah Bonello

Journalist, Editorial Director, VICE News LatAm. Author of NARCAS: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels. 

Bonello presents a complex report on women’s roles in a world of extreme machismo and an eye-opening challenge to the perception of women involved in the complicated and brutal world of cartels.

Deborah Bonello is a journalist, writer and investigator based in Mexico City. Born in Malta and brought up in the UK, she moved to Latin America to work as a foreign correspondent in 2005. Bonello is Editorial Director for Latin America at VICE World News and has nearly two decades of experience covering organized crime, criminal syndicates, particularly the drug trade, as well as the violence and culture connected to the crime world. She’s contributed to several publications, including the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, BBC, and the Telegraph.

Foreign Policy magazine listed her as one of the 100 most-influential female Tweeters.