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Island in the Caribbean
Historical research and recent scientific studies converge on the same core point: the skills, tools and social role we call “cowboy” in the United States trace back to Spanish-era vaqueros in Mexico ...
Drug traffickers use the Caribbean and Central American coastlines as transit and transshipment zones—exploiting long, sparsely patrolled coastlines, many small islands, and weak state capacity—to mov...
The available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative metric for "how much cocaine came to [the] US from the Dominican Republic" but offers consistent evidence that the Dominican Republic i...
Surviving Spanish documentation for Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón’s 1526 expedition is thin and fragmentary: historians rely chiefly on royal grants and legal contracts, contemporaneous chroniclers’ reports...
The primary Caribbean transshipment hubs for cocaine bound for the United States are concentrated where geography, weak controls, and existing smuggling networks intersect: the island of Hispaniola (b...