Since his appointment as Financieele Dagblad's Latin America correspondent, Arthur Debruyne (1986) has frequently encountered the disruptive consequences of drug wars.
Initially, he followed the news about 'el narco' closely, but he became truly fascinated when he learned that three Mexican farmers had been arrested in a crystal meth lab in North Brabant in the Netherlands. This marked the beginning of his years-long quest to find the Mexican lab technicians and underworld brokers who established a new branch of the drug industry in the Low Countries.
Arthur studied Spanish, French, language and literature, and journalism in Brussels and Barcelona.
