Tag: drug cartels
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The multi-billion-dollar cartel networks of Mexico and Colombia are conventionally framed as criminal pathologies—lawless enterprises to be suppressed through militarized interdiction and crop eradication. This framing is analytically inadequate. A substantial body of scholarship in political science, rural sociology, and critical drug policy studies converges on a different conclusion: these networks are the direct consequence…
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The Numbers We’re Not Talking About Let’s start with a number: 5,794. That’s the confirmed case count in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 2026 Ebola outbreak as of August 26. Here’s another: 2,786 — the number of dead. Now let me give you a comparison that should make you sit up. In the first…