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Almost Half a Century after It Began, Here’s How America’s ‘War on Drugs’ Is Still Devastating Latin America

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Published in Independent
(United Kingdom) on 30 January 2019
by Maria Useche, Javier San Vicente and Nathalie Mercier (link to originallink to original)
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