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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:55:03 +0000The War on Drugs’ 50th anniversary | Part 1: applying cocaine to a CIA penis
US intelligence agency CIA claimed cocaine was being applied to the male sex organ after late US President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971. Urologists were unable to…
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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:44:52 +0000Colombia’s defense minister in critical care after COVID-19 infection
Colombia’s defense minister is receiving “critical care” almost a week after testing positive for the coronavirus, the President’s Office said Monday. Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo, 69, tested positive on…
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Sat, 16 Jan 2021 12:19:21 +0000Colombia’s main cities shut down as COVID threatens to collapse healthcare
Residents of Colombia’s three largest cities woke up to another weekend-long curfew on Saturday as the coronavirus has hospitals on the brink of collapse. The curfew took force a day…
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Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:07:17 +0000Joe Biden and Colombia | Part 2: ending the ‘War on Drugs’
President-elect Joe Biden wants to end the United States’ so-called “War on Drugs,” which may force Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to drastically revise domestic drug policies. Duque gladly returned to…
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Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:45:27 +0000Fear in northern Colombia over former paramilitary leader’s return
The repatriation of former paramilitary warlord Hernan Giraldo, a.k.a. “The Drill,” is causing unrest in northern Colombia where some of his children are engaged in a turf war. Giraldo was…
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