Brazil, Colombia Pledge Joint Effort Against Drug Trafficking

Defense ministers from Brazil and Colombia agreed to step up their fight against drug traffickers at a meeting Tuesday in the Brazilian city of Manaus, where feuding drug gangs set off a recent string of deadly prison riots. The countries promised to share intelligence and transportation along a porous 1,600-kilometer (1,000-mile) border cutting through the Amazon rainforest, where they have struggled to slow the flow of drugs in recent years. Demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed...

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