http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/23811/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/trooper_fires_truck_helicopter_leaving_two_dead_0 <p>A Texas state trooper who fired on a pickup truck from a helicopter during a deadly chase through the desert was trying to disable the vehicle and suspected that it was being used to smuggle drugs, the authorities said. The disclosure on Friday came a day after the episode, which left two illegal immigrants from Guatemala dead on a gravel road near here, just north of the Mexican border. State game wardens were the first to encounter the truck on Thursday.</p> <p><a href="http://www.freetalklive.com/content/trooper_fires_truck_helicopter_leaving_two_dead_0" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/trooper_fires_truck_helicopter_leaving_two_dead_0#comments deaths Drug and Alcohol Prohibition fatalities guatemala Illegal Immigrants News Article police Texas Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:57:25 +0000 ecigarettes 24165 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/guatemalan_president_world_legalize_drugs <p>The president said the traditional war on drugs had failed over the past half century, and that the United States' inability to deal with its drug consumption problem left Central America with no option but to promote legalizing drugs in some way.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/guatemalan_president_world_legalize_drugs#comments Activist Hero drug legalization guatemala News Article Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:31:50 +0000 phonon 23627 at http://www.free