The Economist: Latin America’s drug gangs have had a good pandemic

The Economist: Latin America’s drug gangs have had a good pandemic
February 4, 2022 SDC Development 2
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Featuring TorchStone VP, Scott Stewart

The event had all the trappings of a new-year celebration. Fireworks lit up the sky. Young men danced arm-in-arm, singing, waving flags and blasting music. Only it was not an end-of-year party, but an evening in July. The fireworks were accompanied by rounds of gunshots. And the revellers in Santiago, the capital of Chile, were mourning a young man with alleged ties to drug traffickers during what was supposed to be a national lockdown.