Drugs

by Robert Valencia

It’s fair to say that Americans have become accustomed to the steady stream of brutal reports and violent imagery coming out of Mexico as that country fights an ongoing battle against an entrenched network of drug cartels; it’s also why the drug-fueled violence that wracked Jamaica this past week took many by surprise. So far 73 people have died as Jamaican authorities conduct a quasi-military operation in the Tivoli Gardens section of Kingston, homebase of Jamaica’s top drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke.

Audio interview with Emilio Betances, a Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Gettysburg College. He has published two books on the Dominican Republic and currently does research on social movements in Latin America.

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