Behind the scenes of The Cartel Project

In early January, Fidel Ávila Gómez, a radio anchor who had been missing for over a month, was found dead in the Mexican state of Michoacán. His family feared that an organized crime group may have targeted him in response to his work. Ávila was the first of at least eight journalists to be killed or found dead in Mexico this year. In March, assailants gunned down Maria Elena Ferral, a correspondent for El Diario de Xalapa who had recently written on Facebook about the murders of local...