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Reporting on the drug trade, the veteran journalist has a window into a 'cruel and brutal' side of human nature and a nexus of poverty, corruption and failed policy
In this excerpt from her book 'Narcas,' veteran journalist Deborah Bonello uncovers some of the powerful women inside the macho world of Latin America's brutal drug gangs.