How Europe's cocaine habit funds beheadings

November 20, 2014 22:11

It begins with a speedboat. The pilot is crawling upriver. The scenery suggests an estuary.

Aside from the grassy bank where the soldiers have parked their pick-ups, the river has no shore, just ankle-deep mud flats shelving up to a curtain of mangrove, behind which lies an endless, still and inky swamp.

-- Alex Perry/Newsweek

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