Drug Trafficking

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Extrajudicial executions of Latin American fishermen and the pardon of a former Honduran President and cocaine kingpin reveal the deadly contradictions of the U.S. "War on Drugs."

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández has been convicted of drug trafficking. The United States and Canada remain unaccountable.

A Massacre Foretold (DVD, 2007, 58 minutes), directed by Nick Higgins, Lansdowne Productions (massacreforetold.com) In the first scene of A

A few months before Myrian Cossio’s 20th birthday, in San José del Guaviare, a bustling frontier town deep in Colombia’s

In 2004 I interviewed Eva, a transgender former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette

Small arms and gun violence present the most dramatic threat to public safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. After

The ride into Medellín, Colombia, is spectacular, especially at night, when lights sprawl up the western hills about a mile

MANUEL "TONY" NORIEGA ROSE TO POW- er at an opportune time in Central America, and Noriega is nothing if not

Mexico is, according to the U.S. State Department, “a major supplier of heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana” for the U.S. market

Cuernavaca, Saturday, June 13, 1998: At 1:55 in the afternoon I park my pickup truck on Avenida Central, across the

ON JUNE 12 OF LAST YEAR, GEN. ARMANDO Ochoa Sdnchez of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) was arrested on charges