7.6 tons of cocaine was seized in Peru recently. That’s somewhat important.
It’s not important in the context of “stopping the drug trade” — that’s not actually going to happen — but it is important in terms of this:
El Chapo
Brief thought exercise: is it really reasonable to think El Chapo will stay in prison this time?
The longest article written on the capture of El Chapo Guzman (at least in an American publication) ran in The New Yorker in early May, and pointedly addressed the fact there’s concern/mistrust among the Americans with regard to whether he’ll actually stay in… Continue Reading
Is Chicago safer, or is it a mirage?
Chicago has been almost the one-word association for U.S. violence over the past 30 months, but their 2013 data seems promising: crime’s down 16 percent and homicides are down 18 percent. New York, Houston, and Los Angeles also saw pretty significant… Continue Reading
El Chapo should probably be listed among the most powerful people in the world
Here is Forbes’ list of the 100 most powerful people in the world; the big news here is that Putin unseated Obama at No. 1. That shouldn’t really be big news: Russia is about to be at the forefront of… Continue Reading