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drug war

A woman wearing a white shirt signs a black silhouette during a demonstration for mothers of enforced disappearances
Conflict & Justice
In Mexico, the unending drug war takes its toll with thousands of disappearances 
Residents are seen outside their shanties in Navotas, Metro Manila, Philippines, where Jazmine Durana lives, Oct. 28, 2017.
Conflict
Teen ‘widows’ of Duterte’s drug war face a bleak economic future
A farmer cleans a coca crop in Cauca, Colombia, on Jan. 27, 2017.
Economics
UN reaches a deal to help rid Colombia of cocaine
Valdez protest
Media
Mourning a journalist in Mexico who said ‘no to silence’
Duterte
Global Politics
White House defends Trump inviting Rodrigo Duterte to Washington
Recaptured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico City
Justice
Mexico just extradited drug lord ‘El Chapo’ to the US
A relative of a prisoner sat on Jan. 3 outside Anisio Jobim prison in Manaus, Brazil
Conflict
Brazil’s deadly prison riot is just one piece of a bigger drug gang war
Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo arrives at the 2011 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival special screening of "Without Men" during the Maya Indie film series in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, July 24, 2011.
Culture
Tracking El Chapo and Kate del Castillo’s relationship from their flirtatious texts