Drugs
Columnist: End of War on Drugs Couldn’t Be Sooner
Leonard Pitts Jr. Miami Herald It’s been a war on justice, an assault on equal protection under the law. And a war on families, removing millions of fathers from millions of homes. And a war on money, spilling it like water. And a war on people of color, targeting them with drone strike efficiency. We…
Ex-Figure in Boston’s Underworld to Testify in ‘Whitey’ Bulger Murder Trial
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Patrick Nee literally wrote the book on mob life. And despite serious allegations that he was involved in drugs, guns and even helping bury a body, Nee remains free of jail. The Boston Globe reports that Nee is expected soon to testify in the murder and racketeering trial of reputed…
The Collision Between Drugs and Environmental Forces in Central America
By Ross Paker ticklethewire.com Two months ago this column discussed the effect that America’s insatiable appetite for drugs was having on two contrasting Central American nations—violent and impoverished Honduras and peaceful and idyllic Costa Rica. Because of the success of DEA and the U.S. military at interdicting South American drug shipments by sea, the Colombian…
Ross Parker: The Collision Between Drugs and Environmental Forces in Central America
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Paker ticklethewire.com Two months ago this column discussed the effect that America’s insatiable appetite for drugs was having on two contrasting Central American nations—violent…
Weekend Series on Crime: The Deadly Los Zetas Drug Organization
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America’s Drug Appetite Helps Make Honduras One of the Most Dangerous Places on the Globe
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — I spent last week in Honduras with a couple dozen friends under the watchful and protective eye of…
America’s Drug Appetite Helps Make Honduras One of the Most Dangerous Places on the Globe
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — I spent last week in Honduras with a couple dozen friends under the watchful and protective eye of a Honduran woman who has dedicated her life’s work to bettering the lives of the indigenous peasants of her country. Despite State Department warnings we felt safe and…