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More damning details in Utah killing

On the basis of the video we saw alone, that drug bust and killing was unsupportable. Turns out it was even worse. Unbelievable stuff in the Salt Lake Tribune.

Investigators gathered evidence that it was Blair’s roommate, Melanie Chournos, buying and selling meth — a factor in the no-knock search that would precede Blair’s death. […]

US having hard time quietly opposing Bolivia’s coca amendment

Now the Washington Post has picked up on it.

The article gives a pretty good background on the subject and covers the issues without the U.S. parochialism that often biases media drug war coverage.

And here we see the problem for the US government. In their minds, the drug war belongs to them, and they […]

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