Bill Conroy

For decades, author and veteran journalist Bill Conroy has focused his investigative lens on the official duplicity and corruption that fuels the war on drugs and its harms to society and human rights in the U.S. and Latin America. Conroy has worked at newspapers across the country as a staff reporter and top editor, including as a regular correspondent for Narco News, an online, advertising-free newspaper that covered the drug war from a newsroom in Mexico for two decades. Conroy is the author of three books on the drug war: “Borderline Security”; “Dispatches from the House of Death”; and his latest, “The Great Pretense: A Tour Through the Boneyard of the CIA’s War for Drugs.”