The world record for cocaine production was reported in 2021, 52 years after former US President Richard Nixon declared the “war on drugs” (War on Drugs). A persecution in which more than a trillion dollars has been invested, millions of deaths and imprisonments. In Colombia, close to half of the inmates are in prison for minor drug offenses and more than 83% of this group is low-income. Impoverished women are the victims of a failed and increasingly contested war on drugs.
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China asks the Philippines to stop “provocations”; Manila accuses Beijing of attacking its ships in dispute zone
This Tuesday, April 30, the Chinese Foreign Ministry denounced an alleged “intrusion” by Philippine vessels in the disputed South China...