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The second installment of our multi-part series on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing investigation focuses on South America. In Ecuador, the fishing industry takes advantage of a legal loophole to export hundreds of tons of shark fins each year, while in Chile middlemen profit from contentious trading practices that plunder merluza fish populations beyond replenishment. We also highlight how Uruguay’s port of Montevideo has become the last port of call for dead fishing crewmembers, and how Argentina’s prodigious fishing grounds are exploited by international fishing fleets without control.

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From narco-sanctioned music to secret videos and public banners, some Mexican drug traffickers have asked for forgiveness. But after decades of violence that, most recently, led to the murder of two Catholic priests, will Mexicans ever be ready to forgive?

It is about 90 seconds into what is a typical ranchera-homage, or narcocorrido, of Ovidio Guzmán -- one of three brothers known collectively as the Chapitos, a faction of the modern-day iteration of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel -- when the lead singer of the group, Código FN, suddenly feels the need for an aside.

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Oceans Pillaged in Central America and the Caribbean