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Tag: Narco State

🇬🇼 Military seizes power in Africa’s first ‘narco-state’

Heavily armed soldiers claim to have arrested Guinea-Bissau’s president in an apparent coup A group of military officers has seized power in Guinea-Bissau and claimed to have arrested the president. The coup came a day before the West African nation, one of the poorest in the world, with a booming cocaine trade, was scheduled to…
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November 27, 2025
Colombia’s congress considers ban on Pablo Escobar souvenirs

Souvenirs depicting the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar could be banned in Colombia if legislators approve a bill introduced this week in the nation’s congress. The proposal is criticized by vendors who sell his merchandise to tourists from around the world, but backed by those who believe the country should shed its image of…
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August 6, 2024