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After a wave of killings targeting his country’s top police officers, Mexico’s President is vowing to take back the streets.

Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras reports from Mexco City.

Police have declared war on drug traffickers in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The policy by Rio’s new governor to send heavily armed special forces into he city’s notoriously dangerous favelas — or slums — is being applauded by law and order advocates. But as Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman discovered, for those living inside the slums, it looks and feels like a war zone.

One of the Iran’s biggest problems is drugs. According to the United Nations more than 60 per cent of the opium that’s produced in Afghanistan passes through Iran. The country gets millions of dollars of international assistance every year, but says that’s only a fraction of what it needs to fight the drugs trade. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri reports.

Thailand’s new government is planning to revive a controversial drugs crackdown. Thousands of people were killed the last time it carried out such a crackdown. Critics say many of those were innocent civilians. Selina Downes visited relatives of the victims of one such raid.

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.