A new U.S. approach uses the military to strike small boats presumed to be carrying drugs. Yet one country is busting up cocaine rings by relying on legal enforcement and the integrity of its investigators and prosecutors.

The global use of cocaine has hit record levels, with much of it produced in South America and smuggled abroad by Albanian crime networks. Yet in addition, the world has recently seen two very different approaches to curbing this drug flow as well as the corruption that drives it.

This year, President Donald Trump unleashed the United States military to kill alleged drug traffickers on small boats in the Caribbean, offering no evidence of a crime. The new tactic has partially shifted U.S. policy away from criminal prosecution and safe interdiction to one of warfare wit

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