Kat Szulc

Kat Szulc is a Mexico-based freelance journalist who reports on organized crime, cartel activity and politics. Her work has appeared in outlets including CBC News, CityNews Toronto and The Spectator Australia, and she publishes her own reporting on Substack. She hosts Borderland: Dispatches, an IRONCLAD Original podcast with a weekly episode on Mexico’s cartel war.

On the Julian Dorey Podcast she described her reporting from inside CJNG territory and from Culiacán, Sinaloa: how girls get trafficked and the police inaction around it, the generational economy behind trafficking, a journalist killed in Veracruz, the arrest of El Mayo and the fighting between the Chapitos and the Mayo faction, and what it is like to work as a young woman on assignment when a gun is pointed at her team.