ABOUT THIS

News and analyses on the drug wars and related subjects from North America, Mexico, Central and South America from investigative journalist and author, (Joseph) Michael Reynolds.

I am a former correspondent to Reuters Miami/Caribbean bureau who has written on terrorism,violence, crime, politics and religion for Playboy,The Nation, Mother Jones, The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, Rolling Stone, High Times, Alternet and  other publications.

I  was senior intelligence analyst with the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center from 1994-2000 and have served as consultant on domestic terrorism and transnational security threat groups to government agencies, NGOs and private corporations.

I am the author of Dead Ends, an account of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, St. Martins Press, and a contributor to the anthologies The Playboy Book of True Crime; Violence and Terrorism-Tenth Annual Edition and Fascism-Critical Concepts in Political Science.

Over the past thirty years I have lived in and reported from various locations in the Western hemisphere.