Bernardo Loyola

crime & drugs

A Camera, Microphone, and Gun: At Night With a Crime Reporter in San Pedro Sula

The Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs kill with near total impunity in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the world's leading city for homicides. VICE News spent several nights with reporter Orlin Castro as he covered a seemingly endless stream of killings.
Bernardo Loyola
1.9.15
Stuff

David Choe’s Mexico City Gallery Show Features Naked Girls and Visions of Ayahuasca

The artist is back after going through an awful gambling addiction with his first gallery show in four years. As you'd expect if you know David Choe's work, it's completely insane.
Bernardo Loyola
8.16.13
The World Hates You Issue

The Subterranean Scene

Local gangs known as combos made up of reguetoneros (“reggaeton fans”) in their late teens and early 20s haunt the subway stations of Mexico City. Most combos are guilty of general rowdiness and huffing chemicals in public, like American greasers and...
Bernardo Loyola
5.28.13
News

The Fugitive Reporter Exposing Mexico's Drug Cartels

Blog del Narco is a Mexican website that fills people in on the (often bloody) activities of the murderous local drug cartels where the nation's mainstream media has failed. Now Feral House is releasing a book containing the most relevant posts and...
Bernardo Loyola
4.18.13
The Syria Issue

Displaced Verse

In Syria, controversial poet Mohamad Alaaedin Abdul Moulawas earned a reputation as a sort of Arabic Henry Miller. Mohamad now lives in Mexico. He fled Syria just before the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s forces decided to turn his country into a pile of...
Bernardo Loyola
11.30.12
Ojo, mucho ojo

The Grisly Dead People Pictures of Fernando Brito

These days, there's no shortage of grisly images coming out of Mexico thanks to the brutal and ever-present War on Drugs. But Brito’s work stands out because he seems to treat the cadavers as one with the landscape. There is a certain sense of...
Bernardo Loyola
10.3.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

Dear Mexican Cartels: Don’t Fuck with the Angels

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has become known as the “murder capital of the world” thanks to the seemingly endless string of drug-cartel-related killings, and the law-abiding portion of the population is ready to try almost anything to stop the violence.
Bernardo Loyola
8.30.12
The Issue That Cares

Bolivarian Headbangin’

Paul Gillman is without a doubt the most famous hesher in Venezuela and an institution in the Latin American heavy-metal scene
Bernardo Loyola
9.22.11
Stuff

An Interview with Christian Lombardi

Bernardo Loyola
7.28.11
The No Photos Issue

Dr. Lakra Has A Tattoo Of A Demon Peeing On Jesus’s Face

Vice: Where did you get the name Dr. Lakra? What kind of doctor are you?
Bernardo Loyola
11.2.08
VICE Guide To Los Angeles

The Cantinas That Fuel the Tijuana Sound Machine

Some of the best and most original music to come out of Mexico over the past ten years has been produced by the Nortec Collective in Tijuana. When they released the Tijuana Sessions Vol. 1 in 2001, they blew everybody’s minds with their...
Bernardo Loyola
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