Francisco Cuamea Lizárraga

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Francisco Cuamea Lizárraga is a Mexican journalist. For 18 years, Cuamea worked as a reporter and managing editor in Noroeste, a Sinaloa newspaper. His work has also been published in The Washington Post and Newsweek. Cuamea is one of the founding partners of Iniciativa Sinaloa. He has won multiple awards in investigative journalism, and in 2014 was selected as a fellow for the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship. Currently, Cuamea is working on journalism training, research and strategic-communications consulting in Mexico and Central America.

Publications

Cuamea, F. “Drug Dealing: The Evolution of Cartels“. Narcodata.

Cuamea, F. (2019). “How did the Sinaloa Cartel win the battle over Culiacán?“. The Washington Post.

Cuamea, F. “Displaced by drug traffickers: the “exiled” victims“. Connectas.

Cuamea, F. and Meza, S. “Mexican State, the great disregard of forced displacement“. Connectas.

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