The Corridor Interoceánico de Isthmus de Tehuantepec (CIIT) is a Mexican infrastructure megaproject that includes a 188-mile corridor of railways, industrial parks, and other commercial infrastructure that stretches across the isthmus of southern Mexico. It is hailed as Mexico’s alternative…
The Drug Enforcement Agency describes the Sinaloa Cartel as “one of Mexico’s oldest criminal organizations, and one of the most violent and prolific polydrug-trafficking cartels in the world.” Based in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, the modern iteration of the…
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In just one growing season, Afghanistan’s opium fields — once the source of more than 80% of the world’s opium — have all but vanished. A near-total ban enforced by the Taliban since their return to power in 2021 wiped…
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Though the name of the German political party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, or Die Grünen (the Greens), refers primarily to their former single-issue environmentalist mission, the party has long advocated for the decriminalization and legalization of another kind of green: marijuana. …
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