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In the heart of the narco-state, Marco Vernaschi, El Pais
02 Jul 2009 22:16:18 GMT
Source: Pulitzer center
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Marco Vernaschi

El Pais

July 2, 2009

 

Important drug traffickers use Guinea Bissau as a base to smuggle drugs to Europe. A journalist from El Pais visited the country: one of the poorest nations in the world, where militaries -- involved in bloody clashes -- hinder drug trafficking investigations and Latin American drug dealers cross Bissau's dark nights in luxury cars.

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