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How Unethical Is Buying Cocaine?
Your baggy of white powder was brought to you by beheadings, torture, and deforestation in the Amazon. How bad should you feel about that?
The Women of Peru’s Illegal Gold Mines
Peruvian photographer Omar Lucas travelled to the town of La Rinconada to spend time with women who spend 11 hours a day panning for gold.
The Twisted Legacy of Colombia's Aerial Cocaine Crop Spraying Programme
Over the last 21 years, the secretive and controversial US-backed drug war effort dumped weaponised herbicide on 4.3 million acres of land.
Bulls, Booze, and Pumpkins: The Devil's Carnaval Returns to Colombia
The biannual six-day festival includes a lot of drinking, a lot of parades and a lot of extremely dangerous encounters with bulls.
An Ecuadorian Beauty Queen Died Having the Plastic Surgery She Won as a Pageant Prize
According to her brother, she didn't even want the procedure and only agreed to it after the surgeon kept badgering her to come in for the operation.
I Spent the Day with Pablo Escobar’s Brother
He's partially blind, partially deaf and told me he found a cure for AIDS.
Miners Just Took 43 Police Officers Hostage in Bolivia
But it’s just one battle in a larger war over natural resources.
The Hangover News
This weekend, the UK government failed to deport a hunger-striking Nigerian asylum seeker.