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...paradigm was El Salvador. After the war, people decided to use their arms caches to make money in criminal gangs. And then we saw that the right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas began working together! Burglary, car-jacking plus kidnapping, car theft and the like ... But the main sources of revenue in Salvador were not car-jacking or drugs. When you got to the Balkans or the Caucasus, however, the main source of revenue in society was criminal. Now you had a very different model...
...continent mutated into much more deadly struggles between criminally financed militias over minerals. Nowhere was this more clear than in the awful war in the Democratic Republic of Congo that broke out in 1998. In large measure, the war was driven by complex criminal conspiracies. A map of the main zones of conflict between the various armies and militias coincides with a map of the concentration of the D.R.C.'s natural resources. Militias pillaged anything they could find, be it timber, gorillas, copper, diamonds or a little known metallic ore called coltan. When refined as a heat-resistant powder, coltan...
...West is losing the New Cold War," Lucas writes, "while having barely noticed that it has started. Mr. Putin and his Kremlin allies have seized power in Russia, cast a dark shadow over the eastern half of the continent, and established formidable bridgeheads in the main Western countries. And the willingness to resist looks alarmingly feeble...
...injuries were reported as a result of the fire, according to Reardon. The main concern for residents reported by the fire department at the time was carbon monoxide, but firemen had been tasked to monitor levels in basements in the surrounding area and no dangerous levels have since been noted...
...says that students traveling to these countries should keep an open mind. “It’s wrong to think that these people need our help and we need to help them,” Wu says. “One of the main things that people should realize when they travel is a sense of humility, and that you are a guest to these countries. You have so much more to learn from them than they do from you, even though you might be bringing the resources.”—Staff writer Peter...