Le Monde in English

EDIT: That’s all the time we have for our AMA! Thank you to everyone for submitting such great questions, Bertrand Monnet was glad to see you had so many interesting questions and is sorry for not being able to get to them all. If you want to watch his series on the fentanyl crisis, head to lemonde.fr/en/videos. We hope to see you at our next AMA!
-Bertrand Monnet and Le Monde in English

Hello everyone! My name is Bertrand Monnet, and I’m a professor at EDHEC Business School in France and a specialist in the economics of crime. I conducted a two-year investigation inside the notorious Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, filming every stage of the extraordinarily profitable and illegal business of manufacturing and selling fentanyl: a drug that kills, but earns the people who produce it billions of dollars. I also interviewed the people behind and affected by this business, including members of the Sinaloa cartel, their financial advisors in Dubai, and drug users in New York. After wreaking havoc in the United States, the international criminal operation is now targeting a new market: France.

My investigation in collaboration with France’s leading newspaper Le Monde has been turned into ‘Narco Business’, a three-part video series investigating the Sinaloa drug cartel. You can watch it here:

Part 1: Inside the labs that manufacture fentanyl:

Part 2: From a Mexican cartel to the streets of New York:

Part 3: Dubai connection: How to launder 50 million dollars:

AMA about our investigation into the Sinaloa cartel and the business and operations of manufacturing, selling and exporting fentanyl worldwide!

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EDIT: That’s all the time we have for our AMA! Thanks for all your detailed and interesting questions - we’re sorry that we weren’t able to get to all of them. But stay tuned for more AMAs, and if you want to read more of Gilles’ work head to . Thanks for welcoming us to this sub, and we’re excited to discuss more with you!
-Gilles and Diana from Le Monde in English’s team :)

C'est tout le temps que nous avons pour notre AMA ! Merci pour toutes vos questions détaillées et intéressantes - nous sommes désolés de ne pas avoir pu répondre à toutes. Mais restez à l'écoute pour d'autres AMA, et si vous voulez lire d'autres articles de Gilles, rendez-vous sur Le Monde in English . Merci de nous accueillir dans ce subreddit, et on a hate de discuter plus avec vous !
-Gilles et Diana de l'équipe du Monde in English :)

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PROOF:

Hello everyone! My name is Gilles Paris, and I’m a politics columnist for France’s leading newspaper Le Monde, now available in English!



Last Tuesday, the French government announced a highly anticipated and contentious pension reform aimed at raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030. People will also need to have worked for at least 43 years to get a full pension starting from 2027. The reform was a long-time promise of President Emmanuel Macron and a cornerstone of his 2022 reelection campaign. The plan has provoked vigorous criticism and France’s largest labor unions have called for a first day of joint strikes and protests on January 19.

I have covered French politics at Le Monde for six years, and I’m fond of polls and think tank reports. I also covered France’s last presidential election in 2022, when the proposal to push up the retirement age to 65 years old was initially mentioned. 



AMA about France’s new pension reform, the reactions from politicians, the public and unions, and the planned strikes.

En français :

Bonjour tout le monde ! Je m'appelle Gilles Paris et je suis chroniqueur politique au journal Le Monde, désormais disponible en anglais.

Mardi dernier, le gouvernement français a annoncé une réforme des retraites très attendue et controversée visant à faire passer l'âge de la retraite de 62 à 64 ans d'ici 2030. Il faudra également avoir travaillé pendant au moins 43 ans pour bénéficier d'une pension complète à partir de 2027. Cette réforme était une promesse de longue date d'Emmanuel Macron et une pierre angulaire de sa campagne de réélection en 2022. Le plan a suscité de vives critiques et les plus grands syndicats français ont appelé à une première journée de grève le 19 janvier.

J'ai couvert la politique française au Monde pendant six ans, et je suis friand de sondages et de rapports de groupes de réflexion. J'ai également couvert la dernière élection présidentielle française en 2022, lorsque la proposition de repousser l'âge de la retraite à 65 ans a été initialement évoquée.

AMA sur la nouvelle réforme des retraites en France, les réactions des politiques, du public et des syndicats, et la grève prévue.

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Twitter Read my column about France’s pension reform in Le Monde in English Read our article explaining the pension reform in detail Read our article about the planned January 19 strike Read more of Le Monde’s analysis and opinion pieces about the pension reform

EDIT: Hi guys! Thanks for your interesting questions and kind comments about our work. It's the weekend here in France now, but we'll keep an eye out for any more questions that trickle in and respond early next week. Hope everyone has a good weekend too and talk to you soon!
-CH and Diana from Le Monde in English

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Hello Reddit! My name is Charles-Henry Groult, and I lead the video investigations team at Le Monde, France’s leading newspaper, now also available in English.



On June 18, 1940, Charles de Gaulle gave one of the greatest speeches in French history from a BBC studio in London, where he called for the French to resist Nazi occupation. But no film or recording exists of it. With the help of historians, researchers in ethics, and artificial intelligence, our team pieced together de Gaulle’s famous appeal of June 18, 1940 and reconstructed it in his voice. You can watch the video . 
I have directed Le Monde’s video department for three years, supervising high-impact visual investigations on subjects from Uyghur internment camps to Wagner mercenaries in Africa. Before joining Le Monde, I produced award-winning short documentaries about past and current wars for European media like Arte and France Télévisions. I discovered the fascinating story of De Gaulle’s lost speech ten years ago, while doing my post-graduate degree at Cardiff University. It then took me more than ten years to crack the code to telling this story. 


AMA about our video investigation!

Twitter Watch our video recreating De Gaulle's lost 1940 call for France to resist