Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed that “cocaine is no worse than whisky” and suggested the drug trade could be dismantled if cocaine were legalized worldwide, CNN News reports. Despite decades ...
For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.
It was the beginning of 2013. I had an 8-month-old baby when I received the news: I had been laid off from my job as a reporter in Salt Lake City. For almost three years, I worked with a ...