With Australian and New Zealand demand for cocaine as strong as it is, it’s hard to know how much $600 million will do to stop the flow of drugs.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum walks a fine line between appeasing Washington and not alienating voters at home.
To curb the illicit drugs trade, law enforcement should look beyond individual drug busts and focus on capturing the illegal money that reaches so many parts of the global economy.
Central America’s forests are critically important habitat for many forest birds, including endangered species. Narco-traffickers are cutting down trees, leaving birds with nowhere to go.
Civil forfeiture laws and unexplained wealth orders seem to be less about crime control than an exercise in public funding.
Khat is classified as a cash crop in Kenya, but its detractors say it is a harmful product and some regions have moved to ban it.
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