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US$30 billion a year – Ecuador reveals size of local cartel trade
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa admits that cartels and gangs move US$30 billion worth of drugs, arms and other illicit ...
Mongabay on MSN4d
After LA, fire crisis reaches Latin America — from Mexico to Argentina
As Los Angeles faced unprecedented fires razing entire neighborhoods in late January, Latin America was not spared either. In ...
CounterPunch2d
The Policies of Sri Lanka’s New Government: a Historic Opportunity Lost
On the right, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, President of Sri Lanka. On the left, Dr. S. Jaishankar, India’s Minister of External ...
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Ecuador's Presidential Election Is Inflaming Its Polarization Problem
Incumbent President Daniel Noboa will face Luisa Gonzalez in Ecuador's April runoff election. Their agendas are polar ...
India Today6d
Where the dead warn the living: Darien Gap, deadliest stretch on donkey route
A second flight with over 100 Indians who migrated illegally to the US will land in Amritsar today. Most of them and others ...
MercoPress6d
Ecuador accepts military help from Argentina and the US
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Friday said ... His country is in a deep crisis after drug trafficker Adolfo Macias, alias Fito, leader of the Los Choneros gang escaped from jail earlier this ...
Trust in democratic parliaments suffers ‘global decline’, study finds
The report’s lead author said such declines tend to be associated with increased support for populist and anti-establishment parties.
Nearly 30 Connecticut school districts failed to comply with safety plan mandate for current year
Public school districts across the state did not submit a required annual school safety plan and report this school year ...
The Press of Atlantic City5d
Plastic straws have come to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Trump wants them to stay
Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...
Cfr.org1d
Ecuador’s Next President Will Face Debt, Drought, and Gangs
April’s runoff election could decide whether Ecuador continues a descent into instability and violence, or charts a new ...
Jurist1d
Montana judge rules state law defining sex in binary terms unconstitutional
A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and privacy. Judge Leslie ...