fear

But he kept visits brief, fearing he wouldn’t have enough time to escape if state-aligned gunmen came to attack.

He views the sentence against Mitchell as a victory, and said his team had seen evidence that sentences against dealers, even small ones, spread fear through regional drug-dealing networks.

But it’s also raising fears about gentrification and whether longtime owners are getting a fair price.

"There was a lot of fear among the passengers. It was a scene of doomsday," he said.

"The fact that tariffs could disrupt that at the same time that there were signs that the US economy was weakening anyway .. is really fuelling recession fears," she says.