Reply #16: There's going to be a conference on that very topic here in Culiacan... [View All]

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...this week. I'm here to cover it, as well as look into abuses by the military in the drug war.

The Sinaloa Civic Front, the local human rights group, just filed three cases demanding soldiers accused of crimes against civilians be tried in civilian, not military, courts.

The illegal drug trade, supplying us with the drugs we love to hate (or hate to love), pumps tens of billions of dollars into the bank accounts of the cartels each year. That buys a lot of guns and lot of bribes.