War on drugs articles
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Eye on Texas: An Unwinnable Drug War
I was born and raised in Mexico and lived at the Texas-Mexico border for eight years. As a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville, now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, I began to research Mexican organized crime groups that operate transnationally. Since 2009, I have studied illicit networks involved in U.S.-bound […]
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Tony Duffin: The trauma of war is fuelling drug abuse among soldiers in Ukraine
The drug policy expert says PTSD is driving Ukrainian soldiers towards drug use.
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Drug war erupts in Rio de Janeiro: Fierce gun battle rages between Brazilian military police and brutal Red Command cartel that rules slums with an iron fist
Police launched raids on the Red Command (Comando Vermelho), a huge organised crime faction which authorities say uses the poor Complexo do Alemão area of the city as a 'bunker'.