Small Wars Journal

Teun Voeten

BIO

Dr. Teun Voeten is a cultural anthropologist and war photographer. He has written books on the underground homeless in New York and the civil war in Sierra Leone. In 2018, he obtained his PhD at Leiden University on The Mexican Drug Violence. In 2016, Voeten and Maaike Engels made the documentary 'Calais: Welcome to the Jungle’, a multilayered documentary on a squalid refugee camp in Northern France. For Canvas TV in Belgium they made ‘Sacrifice’ in 2017 as a short documentary on rituals in the Mexican Drug Violence for which they interviewed sicarios in Ciudad Juárez and Culiacán.  His website is at  https://www.teunvoeten.com.

Articles by this Author

Field Report: The Netherlands as a narcostate and the emergence of a methamphetamine industry Thu, 05/27/2021 - 7:00pm
El Centro Field Note No. 4: Hotel El Mayo, Culiacán Interview - Active Sinaloa Cartel Sicario ‘El Gordo’ Fri, 11/02/2018 - 5:16pm
El Centro Field Note No. 3: Ciudad Juárez Prison Interview—El Ratón: A Sicario and Gang Member Wed, 10/31/2018 - 12:35pm
El Centro Field Note No. 2: Ciudad Juárez Prison Interview - Sicario Who Killed a Family of Five Mon, 10/29/2018 - 12:56am
El Centro Field Note No. 1: Ciudad Juárez Prison Interview - Sicario Human Sacrifice to Santa Muerte Sat, 10/20/2018 - 6:30am