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Then-President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras talks with then-Vice President Joe Biden in Guatemala in 2016. AP Photo/Moises Castillo

March 28, 2024

The amazing story of the man who created the latest narco-state in the Americas, and how the United States helped him every step of the way − until now

Jorge Heine, Boston University

Washington looked the other way as coup leaders and drugs cartels conspired to turn Honduras into a center of the cocaine trade.

Violent chaos: security forces occupy a prison in Esmeraldas in northwestern Ecuador. EPA-EFE/Ecuadorian Armed Forces

January 18, 2024

Ecuador’s crackdown on violent crime helped turn the country into a narco state

Maria Gabriela Palacio, Leiden University and Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón, University of Cape Town

Poverty, insecurity and a naive and misguided drugs policy have led to a virtual civil war in Ecuador.

A demonstration for peace in Buenaventura, Colombia, where a cartel turf war has left at least 30 people dead since the beginning of this year. Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images

May 27, 2021

Colombian city beset by crime declares ‘Black Lives Matter’

Shauna N Gillooly, University of California, Irvine

A lethal turf war between drug traffickers has terrorized Buenaventura, Colombia for months. Now protesters are demanding the government’s help to protect people in this mostly Black city.

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Jorge Heine
Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
Shauna N Gillooly
Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica de Chile
Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
Research Fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town
Maria Gabriela Palacio
Assistant Professor in Development Studies, Leiden University

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