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WHEN Europe’s busiest port recently announced the discovery of nearly nine tonnes of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas – its biggest-ever seizure of illegal narcotics – it included a detail that was no longer surprising. The shipment had come not from Colombia or Peru, Latin America’s largest cocaine producers, but from Ecuador, the small nation sandwiched between them.
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The assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has highlighted the country’s worsening problem with gangs and drugs
A presidential candidate’s assassination has focused global attention on the country’s extraordinary bloodshed fueled by powerful international and domestic crime groups.
By Gina Baldivieso La Paz, Dec 9 (EFE).- Ponchos, blankets, sweaters, gloves, accessories and a variety of baked goods are some of the products made by Bolivian women inmates that are now being sold in the boutique of the Aymara designer Glenda Yañez. Located in the northwest of capital La Paz, Yañez’s café-boutique “The Chola” …