List of Drugs & Crime articles
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Peruvian Army soldiers stand guard during an operation to blow up a landing strip used by drug smugglers in the Amazon jungle, near Oxapampa, Peru, on Oct. 31, 2019. The Pandemic Has Triggered Dramatic Shifts in the Global Criminal Underworld
Drug cartels are facing broken supply chains, shrinking revenues, and shifting markets. Rising violence is just one effect.
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A man looks at a solidarity basket displayed with a note reading "Who can, put, who cannot, take" in one of the deserted streets in the historic center of Naples on April 3. Mafia, Poverty, and the Pandemic
In southern Italy, an already shaky economy is left struggling by the coronavirus—leaving a vacuum for organized crime.
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A young woman believed to be a victim of human trafficking is questioned by police in Kathmandu, Nepal The Pandemic’s Hidden Human Trafficking Crisis
The coronavirus has created more people vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers—and revealed the world’s unpreparedness to protect them.
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An Islamic State billboard is seen destroyed in the middle of a road in Qaraqosh, Iraq, on Nov. 8, 2016. Reintegrating Ex-Terrorists
Entrepreneurship can help reintegrate former militants—and may be useful for U.S. criminal justice reform, too.
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Playing cards showing details of missing children are displayed in Beijing on March 31, 2007. Human Trafficking Helps Terrorists Earn Money and Strategic Advantage
The United States should get serious about ending slavery once and for all.
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Policemen are seen at a crime scene in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on Nov. 22. In Mexico, AMLO’s Presidency Turned One
Here’s how he’s delivering on his security promises.
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A soldier stands guard as cocaine seized on the Atlantic coast of Honduras is incinerated on October 17, 2013. In Honduras, the U.S. War on Drugs Is Empowering Corrupt Elites
The Central American country has become a transit zone for drug traffickers and the center of a biofuel boom. Dispossessed indigenous groups are paying the price.
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Mia, 15, sits with her new 27-year-old husband during their wedding in Bangladesh’s Tangail district Bangladesh’s Child Marriage Problem Is the World’s Human Trafficking Crisis
Why fixing the second issue isn’t possible without addressing the first.
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A man looks at his phone near a giant image of the Chinese national flag on the side of a building in Beijing on Oct. 23, 2017. China’s Record on Intellectual Property Rights Is Getting Better and Better
The country is making the transition from net importer of ideas to net innovator, and as it does, it is finding that good patent laws matter.
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Users make their way into a pop-up safe injection site in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Jan. 26, 2018. Canada’s Drug Crisis Has a Solution. Politicians Don’t Like It.
Decriminalization saves lives. But Canada is only just accepting that reality—and the United States is even further behind.
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An illustration picture shows pills, tablets, caplets, and capsules of medicine in Lille on May 7, 2017. Addicted in Bhutan
The country’s substance use spike is undermining its focus on gross national happiness.
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A woman and children walk past an armored vehicle in Rio de Janeiro on March 7, 2018. Brazilian Organized Crime Is All Grown Up
And now Bolsonaro’s iron-fisted approach risks worsening the problem.
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Policemen prepare to incinerate drugs at a cement plant on June 19, 2011 in Beijing, China. China’s Reefer Madness Is Sweeping Up Foreigners
Legal marijuana abroad is playing into xenophobia at home.
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A Guerrero community police member stands guard at an illegal poppy field in Heliodoro Castillo, Guerrero state, Mexico, on March 25, 2018. When Poppies Don’t Pay
With a stark decline in the price fetched by opium gum, Mexico’s government should take strides toward making crop substitution proposals a reality in Guerrero.
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Shadows of migrants at a shelter in Mexicali, Mexico, en route to the United States on Nov. 15, 2018. Trump’s Human Trafficking Record Is Fake News
The U.S. government has just released a highly anticipated human rights report that whitewashes the effects of its own policies.
