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  • Pablo Escobar and his Medellín Cartel transformed the cocaine trade during their heyday in the 1980s. But the 30 years since the kingpin’s death have shown that the business remains one of the world’s most dynamic criminal economies… This piece was co-authored with Sara Garcia, Lara Loaiza and Charlotte Newell. Read it in its entirety…

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  • I was on the PRX radio show The World, talking about a temporary partial pause on new US gun export licenses. You can listen here.

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  • The leading candidate in Guatemala’s presidential elections has been eliminated on an administrative technicality in the latest sign of how the country’s deeply entrenched corruption networks leverage the judicial system to crush opponents. Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • The Biden administration in the coming months will be looking to finalize two high-profile immigration regulations, while a Texas-run border security operation tests the limits of states’ ability to carry out independent immigration enforcement policies. Here, Law360 takes a closer look at three of the most important immigration policy developments to watch for in the…

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  • President Joe Biden started his second year in office with several policy moves aimed at cutting immigration court backlogs and expanding a temporary foreign worker program to help address persistent labor shortages. Here, Law360 takes a closer look at three of the most important immigration policy developments so far in 2022… Read this piece in…

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