# Breitbart Reporter Brandon Darby Discusses his "Cartel Chronicles" Series

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Podcast: [EmpowerU America Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/empoweru-america-podcast-7044524)
Published: 2025-11-25T23:21:38+00:00
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## Resource

Brandon Darby’s “Cartel Chronicles” series, which launched in 2014, made Breitbart News the first media outlet to tell stories from the border.Because the Mexican side of the border is largely controlled by cartels, Mexican journalists face great danger. If they write what the cartel bosses want, they’ll be fine. But if they write the truth, then their body will end up dangling headless and handless from an overpass. It is because of this danger that Mexicans who write for Breitbart’s “Cartel Chronicles” are the only journalists Breitbart allows to use pseudonyms.Brandon will share amazing stories from the “Cartel Chronicles,” including stories about cartel bosses who have whined that Breitbart ruined their lives because it outed their identities and locations. ABOUT BRANDON DARBY Brandon Darby joined Breitbart in 2010, focusing on human trafficking and cartel violence along our southern border. Numerous cartel bosses have been arrested due to the reporting of Breitbart Border / Cartel Chronicles.Responsible for the first reporting and photos depicting the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border in 2014, Brandon Darby’s work gives voice to the voiceless. He and Ildefonso Ortiz co-founded Breitbart’s “Cartel Chronicles,” a citizen-journalist project that allows people living under cartel control to provide on-the-ground reporting using pseudonyms. The stories are printed in Spanish and English.

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