The tranquil city of Echt is being poisoned by the Netherlands' booming drug trade. As drug labs leak toxic waste, the city's mayor has teamed up with the police chief to contain the cartel-driven operations that have made his border city a prime logistical hub.
In Venezuela’s downtrodden fishing towns, locals are squeezed between a growing U.S. military presence off the coast and what they describe as a new wave of intimidation from Nicolás Maduro’s repressive regime.
Reported by
OCCRP
December 16, 2009
Antonio Marquez is arrested in a widening criminal probe into seven small private banks shuttered last week.
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