Drugs, Murder and Redemption: The Gangs of Caracas

Drugs, murder and redemption: the gangs of Caracas
The government does not publish full statistics but says the official murder rate is 48 per 100,000 people, more than double South America's average. Some estimate the rate in … Bubbling under these disputes is competition to sell drugs, mostly …
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Homelessness and drug abuse soaring across the country
Almost half of those using the Dublin drug-free rehabilitation service based at High Park were from outside the city – and MQI says the statistics are proof that the government needs to invest in new detox and rehab facilities across the country. As in …
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Homewood residents rally to rebuild their community
Racial unrest in the 1960s and a crack cocaine epidemic in the late 1980s and early 1990s eroded Homewood. Businesses and homeowners moved away, leaving behind a … The goal is to rehab 25 homes a year, said Blackwell, pastor of House of Manna Faith …
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