In 2004, Joel Hafvenstein went to Afghanistan as part of an aid program to help Afghan opium farmers find alternative ways to make money. Predictably, the program ran into resistance from the area’s drug trafficking warlords, and responded with ambushes. Within just a few months, nine of his colleagues were dead.
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