12. Laura Gottesdiener on her report, A drug-trafficking mayor ravaged a local economy, fueling the flight from Honduras.

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12. Laura Gottesdiener on her report, A drug-trafficking mayor ravaged a local economy, fueling the flight from Honduras.

Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

Oct 22, 2021

What are the structural impacts of the rise of corruption and fusion of politics and drug trafficking in Honduras? How do they impact local employment, land use, poverty, and hunger? What happens when the drug lords and the legally elected officials destroy the legal agriculture activity that the local rural population depends on? In this episode Marta Valier talks to Laura Gottesdiener, a correspondent for Reuters based in Mexico who wrote the special report on the links between corruption, criminality, drug trafficking, and migration in Honduras, explaining in practical terms way how these dynamics work at the local level. Here is the link to Gottesdiner's story:
"A drug-trafficking mayor ravaged a local economy, fueling the flight from Honduras."

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