“The illicit nicotine trade is expanding … Organized crime groups are already capitalizing on the market, and revenues from sales are not confined to nicotine; they help finance broader criminal enterprises, including weapons and human trafficking,” warns Christian Leuprecht.
“Returning to measured, human-capital-based immigration policies depends on the grieving parties reaching the acceptance stage. They need to learn to live with the new reality, rather than trying to roll the stone back up the mountainside,” writes MLI contributor
As the United States tightens its blockade to cut off oil from Cuba’s communist regime, some are calling for Canada to step in with aid. These events come at a moment of rapidly shifting geopolitics around the world. Yet Canada’s approach to Cuba remains strikingly unchanged.
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