Investigative journalists form alliance in Latin America
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The United States has been the world's biggest market for just about everything, including illegal drugs , and that creates big problems for its neighbors. Carla Minet Versi�n en espa�ol So much money from the drug trade flows into Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean that it corrupts governments, courts, police, armed forces, trade regulators, and other institutions that were not that strong to begin with. The result is that many of these countries are ruled, de facto, by the whims of organized crime and not in the public interest. Criminal organizations have gone global, and investigative journalists need to go global as well in order to expose this corruption and serve their communities better. Cross-border cooperation was the big takeaway from a three-day meeting of investigative journalists from 17 countries in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 4-6. Billed as " The First Caribbean Meeting of Investigative Journalists: Tracking the Stories t...