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Tim Kaine: “A lot of this violence in the nations that are corrupting their institutions, affecting both the security and governance…”

On the recordMay 4, 2015
A lot of this violence in the nations that are corrupting their institutions, affecting both the security and governance pillars, and the prosperity, too, is driven by the drug trade.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine links violence in Central America to the drug trade and its impact on governance.

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