Now joining the fight against coronavirus: The world’s armed rebels, drug cartels and gangs
April 14, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. GMT+5:30
In Afghanistan, the Taliban has dispatched health teams to far-flung provinces to confront the coronavirus. In Mexico, drug cartels are offering aid packages to those feeling its economic impact. In Brazil and El Salvador, gangs enforce curfews to prevent its spread.
As governments around the world have responded to the coronavirus, so too have armed insurgents and terrorist groups and drug cartels and gangs, a parallel underworld of public health policy and strategic messaging.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com
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