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Wedding Day Murder Exposes Brutality of Mexican Border State

The recent murder of a groom leaving his wedding illustrates the brutality that has taken over the Mexican border state of Sonora, just south of Arizona. The state ranks fifth in Mexico for murders due primarily to a fierce cartel turf war where rival factions fight for control of fentanyl smuggling routes into Arizona.

U.N.: Colombia Hits Record High Cocaine Production

Production of coca crops and potential production of cocaine in Colombia reached its highest recorded levels in two decades in 2021, according to a report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Integrated Illicit Crop Monitoring System (SIMCI) this month.

cocaine or other drugs cut with razor blade on mirror. hand dividing white powder narcotic

Brazil: Leftist Lula Accuses Bolsonaro of ‘Pedophile Behavior’

More than 1.1 million people tuned into the live broadcast of the Brazilian podcast Flow on Tuesday to listen to far-left socialist presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took time to, among other things, describe conservative President Jair Bolsonaro as a “pedophile” and accuse soccer star Neymar of cutting a deal with Bolsonaro to avoid prison.

Brazil's former president, who is running for reelection, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left,

Democrats Close Out a Disastrous Hispanic Heritage Month

October 15 marks the last day of this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month — one the administration of leftist President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats marked with a string of embarrassing gaffes and episodes of discrimination that will likely do little to improve the party’s poor prospects with Hispanic Americans.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive to attend a reception in the East Roo

The Economist Calls for Legalizing Cocaine, Following Lead of Latin American Communists

The left-wing elite magazine the Economist called for the legalization of cocaine in a column this week, calling leftist President Joe Biden “too timid” for not publicly considering it and going so far as to claim that Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro – who called for decriminalizing the cocaine trade at the United Nations last month, also needed to be more extreme.

The left-wing elite magazine the Economist called for the legalization of cocaine in a co