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Narco
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Haiti: Narco-Compromised Army To Be Unleashed On Drug Gangs
Sound like a good plan?
December 20, 2017
What We Don’t Get About ‘Narcos’—and Why We’re Living Out an Alternative Narrative in Real Life
Pablo Escobar is not a heroic figure. When you kill enough people to become known as “The Patron…
September 11, 2017
Is Anti-Drug Strongman of the Philippines in Bed with Narco Gangs?
Is it really possible that Philippine President Rodirgo Duterte—who has unleashed a “War on Drugs,” which has now…
September 5, 2017
Mexico: Cartels Kill Another Journalist
Yet another Mexican journalist was slain on Tuesday, as the cartels continue to exact vengeance on any who…
August 24, 2017
Nightmarish Narco-Violence in Chihuahua
An armed clash in the early hours of July 5 in a mountain village in Mexico’s border state…
July 6, 2017
U.S. Guns Reportedly Shipped to Brazilian Narco-Gangs
Amid fast-escalating nightmarish narco-violence in Brazil comes disconcerting word that police in Rio de Janeiro seized 60 assault rifles hidden…
June 13, 2017
Peru: New Coca Eradication Effort Met with Guerrilla Attack
Announcement of an aggressive new coca-eradication campaign in Peru was met with a deadly attack on security forces in the…
June 7, 2017
El Salvador: Barrio 18 ‘Revolutionaries’ Sentenced in Massacre
Last week, a judge in El Salvador sentenced seven accused members of the country’s feared mara gang networks to 390 years in…
May 30, 2017
Narco-Deforestation: Cocaine and Money Laundering Destroy Large Swaths of Central America
Cocaine trafficking is devastating Central America in a way that has probably never occurred to most people: millions…
May 24, 2017
Has the Drug War Made Mexico the Second Most Dangerous Country on Earth?
Protests have been held in Mexico over the slaying of an award-winning journalist on May 15—the latest in a long line of…
May 23, 2017