He has written about the drug war and organized crime for Newsweek, Slate.com, Foreign Policy, Jane’s Intelligence Weekly, FDI magazine, the Sunday Times and World Politics Review, among others. He is the author of two books on Mexico’s drug war, “The Last Narco” (Penguin, 2010) and “Hasta El Ultimo Dia” (Ediciones B, Mexico, 2012). He can be reached at mbeithpublic@gmail.com.