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Jose Luis Correa: “The big gaping wound is our American drug demand for those drugs; our American dollars being spent on those drugs.”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2017
The big gaping wound is our American drug demand for those drugs; our American dollars being spent on those drugs.
Said by
Jose Luis Correa
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Correa links American drug demand to the destabilization of Mexico and the drug trade.

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