Drugs
Venezuela border conflict mixes drug trafficking and regime-change ambitions
April 16, 2021Colombian and the U.S. hope to utilize any drug-linked humanitarian crisis as an opening to further destabilize Venezuela’s government.
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Unregulated capitalism drives ‘The Business of Drugs’
August 7, 2020CIA analyst shares background on the big money industry of illegal drugs in new Netflix docu-series.
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Big pharma’s new opium war: Exporting the addiction crisis to China
November 22, 2019Millions of working-class American lives have been ruined by addiction to opioids. But in China, big pharmaceutical conglomerates are just getting started.
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“Narco country”: AMLO’s battle for Mexico’s north
November 18, 2019In order to quell Narco violence, AMLO is going to have to fight for the hearts and minds of the youth of Sinaloa in a way no previous administration has.
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With conviction of president’s brother, protest in Honduras reaches boiling point
October 24, 2019The rise of two cartel-connected presidents to power was the result of the 2009 U.S.-backed military coup d’etat which overthrew left-leaning President Manuel Zelaya.
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