US turns drug war focus onto the Pacific Ocean

Insight

Countries around the world are engaged in a fight against drugs for various reasons, especially in Latin America and the United States.

The U.S. government, who is still to this day fighting an arguably unnecessary war on drugs, is turning its attention to the high seas of the Pacific Ocean targeting so-called “narco traffickers.” CCTV America’s Martin Markovits filed this report Mexico.


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