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Ecuador Declares War on “Cartel Terrorism” — But Is War The Right Response?

Ecuador’s President has called in the army to fight the country’s rampant drug gangs. Sadly he can at best sever the fingertips of a criminal hydra, as big as the world itself.

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Geopolitics Society Terror in Europe

How To Buy Antiquities Looted By ISIS From An Italian Mobster

In southern Italy, mob clans have entered into an unlikely alliance with the Islamic terror group, exchanging Kalashnikovs for ancient artifacts pillaged in war. One reporter went undercover looking to make a deal.

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Society

Crime Int’l: Ivory Smuggling In Vietnam, Mob Violence in Madagascar, And More

Animal-related crime was making news around the world this week, including 30 lizards in a Japanese suitcase and two tons of elephant tusks in Vietnam. Take a tour of Crime Int’l… (photo: iisg)

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Society

Crime Int’l: Gambler King, Mob Violence, Lying Parents

The past week (Sep. 27-Oct. 3) witnessed a Madagascar mob, Brazilian motel mystery, the suprise end to a search in France, and other crimes and misdemeanors around the world. (photo: alvara_qc)

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Crime Int’l Sept 19-25

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