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It Always Comes Back to Our Failed War on Drugs
Trotting out rhetoric about drug trafficking was a helpful pretext to remove Maduro in Venezuela — when oil was the real goal.
Mattha Busby
Mattha Busby is a freelance journalist and author who has written widely on health policy, drugs, society and culture.
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