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Is that a candle - or a consignment of cocaine?
Cocaine smugglers are literally turning the drug into innocent-looking plasticware and candles - the latest trick to fool customs officers.
NZ ranked fourth in global economic freedom rankings
NZ is the fourth most economically free country in the world according to a US think tank and the Wall Street Journal.
Drugs war soaking Mexico-US border blood red
Narcotraficantes, or drug dealers, can buy the murder of many, and the loyalty of nearly everyone.
Ecuador: Marketplace in the mountains
Jim Eagles takes a journey high in the Andes and back in time to meet Ecuadorean people whose history predates the Inca.