She started her career as a reporter at Reforma, later reporting for the national newspapers Milenio, Reforma, El Universal and its supplement, La Revista. Today she is a contributing journalist for the online publication Reporte Indigo and Proceso magazine. Her editorial on the importance of a Free Press in Mexico, called ‘The Perverse Power of Silence’ won her the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers’ Golden Pen of Freedom in 2012. Her books include Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers (Verso, 2013).