Who was Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas?
Born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico in 1967, Valdez Cárdenas was a national correspondent for newspaper La Jornada and was the founding editor of RíoDoce, an investigative newspaper distributed throughout Sinaloa, and online, since 2003.
Valdez Cárdenas won international awards for uncompromising coverage of the daily life of Sinaloans affected by the U.S.-Mexico drug war.
He is the author of nine books in Spanish, the most recent Narcoperiodismo (2016). Foir years, the Malyerba column was a regular short story feature in RíoDoce until Javier Valdez’s assassination on 15 May 2017.
His first book in English is The Taken: True Stories from the Sinaloa Drug War (Oklahoma, 2017) translated and with an introduction by Everard Meade, director of the Transborder Institute of the University of San Diego.
Malayerba: Chronicles from Sinaloa and the Drug War
By Javier Valdez Cárdenas of RíoDoce
(Translated by Patrick Timmons)
Cross-dresser
25 January 2015 (translated 13 May 2018)
Diabetic
12 June 2016 (translated 28 October 2017)
They are going to kill you
27 March 2017 (translated 16 May 2017)
Evil Commander (translated 10 June 2017)
12 October 2014
God Does Not Exist
3 February 2014
The Enemy
18 February 2014
Between the Furrows
24 February 2014
Happy Hour
8 March 2014
Day Laborers
10 March 2014
Drunk
19 March 2014
The Bedroom
14 April 2014
The Shootout
15 April 2014
Celebration
21 April 2014
Mother’s Pride
7 May 2014
Drugs/Love
22 May 2014
The Business Meeting
28 May 2014
St. Jude the Apostle
16 June 2014
Good Folk
14 July 2014
(Note: Dates come from date of English translation and are not those of original publication in Spanish.)
Mexican Journalism Translation Project 
I have just discovered Javier Valdez Cardenas. “The Taken” is the only thing I could find on ABE Books. Shocking!