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Latin America and the Caribbean

Marihuana smokers in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Cannabis

Legal distribution

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by Sebastián Artigas
Commemorating victims of Mexico’s war on drugs.

Mexico

Missing people

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by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán being arrested for the second time in 2014. The head of the Sinaloa cartel managed to escape from prison twice, but was extradited to the USA in 2017.

Change of government

Restart needed

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by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
Coca harvest in Putumayo.

Narcotics

“Drugs are in our country’s DNA”

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by Julian Quintero
by Julia Jaroschewski
by Sonja Peteranderl
Bolsonaro’s famous campaign gesture symbolising guns.

Authoritarian tendencies

Destroying global commons

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by Hans Dembowski
Urban gardening in Havana.

Food security

Pioneering urban agriculture

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by Katie Cashman
Whose side are you on? Security forces operating in a favela in January 2018.

Mafia

Gangsters colluding with governments

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by Hans Dembowski
Irretrievable losses: Rio’s Museo National went up in flames.

Cultural loss

National disaster

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by Carlos Albuquerque
Robot-assisted surgery in Mexico City.

Education

Cultural change

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by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
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