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Has Ciudad Juarez found a solution to drug violence?
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Ciudad Juarez, on the border between Mexico and the United States, recently had the highest murder rate in the world due to a brutal drugs war. Now businesse...
Shannon O’Neil and Alejandro Poiré: Disrupting the drug war
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A special session in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, including Shannon O'Neil, senior fellow for Latin American Studies at the Council on ...
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Video: Darth Vader, stormtroopers wage war against drugs in Ukraine
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A dozen people dressed as Star Wars stormtroopers raided a store in Odessa, Ukraine they believe to sell herbal smoking blends. The group were led by an individual dressed as Darth Vader who said that they are fulfi...
Ukraine to put more restrictions on imported drugs
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Ukraine has adopted a new law that blocks import of foreign manufactured medicines without a license into Ukraine. The registration of drugs in Ukraine used to be valid for a period of up to five years. From now on,...
1000000 Subscribers! Welcome to VICE with Shane Smith
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As a big thank you for helping VICE's YouTube channel reach one million subscribers, VICE's founder Shane Smith offers you an insider's tour of our headquarters in Brooklyn, NYC, giving you a sneak peek of what exci...
Exploring Mexican Narco Cinema
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After getting a brief history of Mexican narco cinema, we set off to Tijuana to play a walk-on part in a drug- and action-filled movie. Originally released in 2011 on VICE.com Check out the Best of VICE here bit.ly ...
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Stadium named after prison company stirs outrage
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Florida Atlantic University recently constructed a $70 million football stadium and was on the hunt for a sponsor for the facility. According to reports, the private prison industry giant Geo Group stepped in to fil...
Rights group faults Mexico over abductions
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Dozens of people were abducted and killed by Mexican security forces over the past six years, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. The report, released on Wednesday, said that the disappearances of som...
Painkillers’ abuse reaches epic proportion
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A bipartisan group in congress is putting pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to take action against the pain-killer abuse in the US. They want to make addictive prescription drugs harder to obtain by chang...
How to Survive a Plague
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"How to Survive a Plague" documents the early years of the AIDS epidemic and the efforts of activist organizations like ACT UP and TAG to take on Washington and the medical establishment to help identify and approve...
Bitter Medicine: Sanctions hit life-saving drugs in Iran
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Despite the concerns of Israel, the US and its Western allies, Iran denies it's developing atomic arms under the cover of a civilian nuclear program. Meanwhile, the severe international sanctions are hitting the liv...
US drug war overflows Latin America
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The war on drugs is expanding: in Latin America, the US military is kicking up combat in the most expensive initiative in the region since the Cold War. Victor Silverman of Pomona College joins us to break it down.
Inside Story Americas – Is Mexico’s war on drugs close to a real end?
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The election of Enrique Pena Nieto last year marked the return to power of the Industrial Revolutionary Party (PRI) that had ruled the country for 71 years prior to the year 2000. Pena Nieto promised the PRI was no ...
Inside Story – End of the road for Lance Armstrong?
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After years of fiercely denying the allegations against him, former cyclist Lance Armstrong has, for the first time, publicly admitted to doping. Armstrong ended a decade of speculation by admitting he used performa...
Mandatory minimum sentences target minorities
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Since the 1980's, the US has been fighting a long war on drugs. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan created the "Just Say No" campaign to discourage the youth from getting involved in drugs. Around the same time, the Ant...
Rafael Nadal – victim of painkillers epidemic?
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The US has been fighting the war on drugs for decades, but is the government fighting the wrong enemy? In 2008, prescription drugs killed approximately 14800 people and in New York City Mayor Bloomberg have stated t...