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[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.
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[Link] 2 Drug Companies Can Legally Start Selling Cocaine, Heroin, and MDMA
Read: 3/3/2023 www.vice.com
But it’s not clear under what circumstances the companies will be able to sell the drugs, and B.C. Premier David Eby said he was “astonished” to hear the announcement.
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[Link] The Cocaine Queen of Honduras Was Just Extradited to the US
Read: 28/7/2022 www.vice.com
Honduras just put one of its most notorious suspected drug bosses on a plane to the United States. Herlinda Bobadilla, alias “La Chinda,” is the 62-year-old alleged matriarch of the Montes drug cartel.
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[Link] Richard Branson Wants Singapore To Spare a Prisoner's Life. We Asked Him Why.
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
In an interview with VICE World News, the billionaire anti-death penalty activist highlighted the case of an intellectually disabled man sitting on death row. It was through international headlines that Richard Branson learned about an especially disturbing death penalty case unfolding in Singapore.
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[Link] New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World To Fully Legalise Drug Checking
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
New Zealand has become the first country in the world to permanently legalise drug checking services, which will allow individuals to test the safety of illicit substances at festivals and other locations without the fear of legal repercussions.
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[Link] The First Female President of Honduras Just Vowed to End Narco Corruption
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
After one of the most dramatic elections in Honduran history, Xiomara Castro has declared herself the winner, making her the first female president in the country's history. Then she made her first promise: to end the narco-corruption that plagued the reign of her predecessor.
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[Link] Why Are Presidential Candidates in This Country Getting Tested for Cocaine?
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
No one asked them to do it, it probably shouldn’t have been necessary either, but politicians running for president and vice president in the Philippines have clambered over one another this week to take drug tests.
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