Cocaine smugglers are literally turning the drug into innocent-looking plasticware and candles - the latest trick to fool customs officers.

NZ is the fourth most economically free country in the world according to a US think tank and the Wall Street Journal.

Guayaquil, Ecuador's biggest city, makes artistic use of public space, writes Jim Eagles.

Narcotraficantes, or drug dealers, can buy the murder of many, and the loyalty of nearly everyone.

Jim Eagles takes a journey high in the Andes and back in time to meet Ecuadorean people whose history predates the Inca.