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Patrick Radden Keefe of The New Yorker has been documenting the “most outlandish” stories from the Mexican drug war in a new article.

There’s been a surge of drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle. Thai police say Burma’s political reforms may be indirectly resulting in increased trafficking in the border areas of Burma, Thailand and Laos.

Colombian authorities are trying to crack down on cocaine production by targeting some of the chemicals used in processing the drug. Trouble is, those chemicals also have legitimate uses. John Otis reports from Bogota, Colombia.

Orlando de Guzman reports from Bangkok that Thailand is launching a second ‘war on drugs;’ five years ago the country drew international condemnation when its first anti-drugs campaign resulted in the death of more than two-thousand people.