Drug traffickers in Colombia are finding ever more inventive ways of transporting narcotics out of the country.
Colombia is the world’s main producer and distributor of cocaine. As police continue their efforts to crack down on the drug cartels - they’re finding the battle is not only on land, in the sky or on the sea - but underwater.
Teresa Bo reports.
As the battle between Exxon Mobil and Hugo Chavez escalates Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports on how Chavez’s threat to halt oil exports to the United States could backfire.
The lucrative cocaine industry in Colombia funds rebel groups like the Farc.
So now, the country’s president is intensifying efforts to eradicate coca fields - by hand.
Anti-narcotics police are teaming up with farmers to beat the menace.
Teresa Bo reports.
On the Uruguay-Argentina border, a huge pulp mill meant to energise the economy is instead hurting commerce on both sides of the border. The big beef producing Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos hoped for new jobs. Instead trade and travel have been literally blocked by Argentine activists, and economically, both sides of the border are hurting. Teresa Bo reports from Fray Bentos.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Potosi on the thousands of people drawn back into Bolivia’s dangerous mines by the rising price of minerals.