‘Wherever you have drugs, you have guns’: why is there an epidemic of violence in the Caribbean?

‘Wherever you have drugs, you have guns’: why is there an epidemic of violence in the Caribbean?

One of the most violent regions of the Americas, crime is fuelled by criminal gangs, economic challenges and a deterioration of family values

The last thing Raquel Rodriguez remembers of that afternoon is that she was playing with her neighbour’s baby outside her home in the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) neighbourhood of Barataria.

Then came a piercingly loud explosion.

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