Podcast: "The Hard Country," Ep. 16, the one with the El Chapo hat.

We have narco cartel merch, yes you read that right.

On this episode of The Hard Country, Melissa Ford and I discuss the recent appearance of Russian and Chinese infantry in Mexico City — yes, really — my recent testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Task Force to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels, and perhaps most important, my discovery of a Sinaloa Cartel merch store in San Antonio, Texas. We also tackle the latest iteration of the migrant crisis at the Mexican border, and discuss the perplexing case of Claudia Sheinbaum: almost certainly Mexico’s next president, yet deeply discomfited by her own identities.

If this is the sort of thing you like, you will like this thing. Vamanos:

The Hard Country can be found on YouTube, quite obviously, and also at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and no doubt elsewhere.