drug trade

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

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

DEEP INSIDE BOLIVIA'S SIGLO XX TIN MINE, three men get ready to begin their day's work. Not long ago, this ...

Economist Pierre Salama has listed the problems that the study of the production, distribution and use of drugs presents for ...

Far beyond the Venezuelan government's reach is a massive, not-so-underground prison economy based on a lucrative trade in cocaine, heroin, ...

For the children of Medellin, drug trafficking brings the fantasy of wealth and the reality of death. First it becomes ...

In the Americas, the production and sale of illicit drugs generates tens of billions of dollars a year—perhaps far more ...

JANUARY 19, 1988. THE ENTIRE POPULATION of Barranca is in the village square, along with resi- dents of 15 other ...