November 30 2011 – Miss Bala, a Mexican movie that is a current Oscar hopeful and inspired by true events, follows beauty queen Laura Guerrero in her violent downward spiral into the hands of organized crime. Filmed, produced and edited for AFP by Deborah Bonello.

This report was produced for Time Magazine by Deborah Bonello.

Watch the video on Time’s website here.

Camera Assistant was Myles Estey - you can see his website here.

You can read the report by Human Rights Watch on their website here.

Photo: Laura Garcia and her family outside the club from where her brother Francis disappeared on March 1st 2010. The family believe Francis was taken by the Mexican military. Credit: Myles Estey.

October 25 2011 – A dispatch for Time from a recent trip to Veracruz:

In touristy Veracruz, Mexico, drug-related violence has spiked. After a recent wave of 80 killings, the federal government sent troops to patrol the city. But many still don’t feel safe

See the video here on Time.com

October 18 2011 – A short video documentary by me for Univision on peace activist and poet Javier Sicilia and his potential to create real change here in Mexico. Watch the video here on Univision’s Tumbler.

October 14 2011- The Mexican government has launched a military crackdown in the state of Veracruz following more than 80 killings in the tourist port in the last few weeks. Despite the military’s poor human rights record, local residents say they will seek safety where they can find it.

You can also see the dispatch here on AFP’s YouTube channel in English and in Spanish.

September 9 2011 – My final piece for AFP from my trip to Guatemala. Will be watching elections this weekend….

Fifteen years after the end of a vicious civil war, Guatemala is still beset by violence, only now it is organized crime and street gangs that are driving up death tolls to wartime levels. Emergency workers called to clean up the bloody aftermath are struggling to cope.

See the video here – it’s not on the AFP YouTube channel yet.

This video was made for AFP, and you can watch it here on their YouTube Channel.

Daniel Dominguez, one of the hard-worked crime reporters on El Diario, the biggest newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, was kind enough to let me spend the day with him last week. Here’s the report I produced for AFP, which you can also see here on YouTube. The same video is also embedded below, in case of geographical restrictions on the above.

Mexico’s march for peace, led by Catholic poet Javier Sicilia, crossed over from Ciudad Juarez – the violent epicenter of the country’s drug war – into El Paso, Texas Saturday.

They were joined by hundreds of Americans in their demands for a change in strategy from both the Mexican and US governments.

This video was created for AFP.

If you can’t watch the video above, please watch it here on YouTube.

May 13 2011 – In relation to the above video report I just did for AFPTV about Mexico’s new migrant law, news has been circulating this week that a group of Central American migrants recently rescued from kidnappers in northern Mexico accused immigration agents of pulling them from a bus and handing them over to criminal gangs. As a result, 7 top officials at Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Migracion (National Immigration Institute) were fired yesterday.