A customer examines a gun at the Top Gun shop in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 21 January 2019, the day that President Bolsonaro passed a law easing access to firearms in Brazil. Photo by Cris Faga/NurPhoto/Sipa USA. PA Images. All rights reserved
2018 was a year in which political issues were still often framed as left or right in the Americas, but the only ideology that mattered was organized crime.
Some of the worst news came from Colombia, where coca and cocaine production reached record highs amidst another year of bad news regarding the historic peace agreement with the region’s oldest political insurgency, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
