No reduction in Mexico kidnappings
Government crackdown isn’t stopping abductions Ioan Grillo Mexico’s security forces have been unable to reduce the number of kidnappings for ransom across the country despite many arrests and deaths...
View ArticleMexican marines seize 900 guns
Seizures of large piles of guns have become worryingly common in Mexico. But the Sunday bust in Michoacan state still made a news splash for the sheer size of the arsenal. Mexican marines broke open a...
View ArticleMexican soldiers tortured American
Accusations of police or soldiers in Mexico torturing and wrongfully imprisoning suspects are so common that they rarely make news. But it does make a splash when the alleged victim of the abuse is...
View ArticleDEA defends money laundering stings
The Justice Department defended the Drug Enforcement Administration’s controversial money laundering stings, pointing out they have been used since 1984 to successfully bring down dozens of major...
View ArticleDEA defends money laundering stings
The Justice Department defended the Drug Enforcement Administration’s controversial money laundering stings, pointing out they have been used since 1984 to successfully bring down dozens of major...
View ArticleMexico’s narco torpedoes
On the streets of American cities, a drug torpedo can refer to a cocktail of marijuana and crack cocaine. But on the seas off Mexico and Central America, it can now mean a real torpedo, which is used...
View ArticleJuan Ortiz-Lopez, Guatemala's top drug trafficker, to be extradited to the US
Violence related to Mexico's vicious drug war has pushed violence south. Today, 90 percent of South American cocaine destined for the US passes through Central America.read more
View ArticleLatin America's drug fight (PHOTOS)
Latin American countries are stuck in a vicious drugs cycle — mostly to serve a voracious appetite for narcotics in the United States. But drug use also has risen in the Americas and critics say the...
View ArticleIn-depth series: Latin America's drug rethink
Imagine a post-drug war world. After decades of brutal violence, huge costs and corrupting cartels, the Americas are trying to picture it. They produce and ship the bulk of the cocaine that enters the...
View ArticlePeru backs the US in the war on drugs
LIMA — Peru is set to overtake Colombia as the world's top grower of coca — the plant used to make cocaine and crack. So far, the Andean country's government is staying the course in the US-backed war...
View ArticleIn Latin America, 'critical mass' urges end to drug war
What was once taboo has now got presidents talking in public and writing charged commentaries. They’re trying to frame the new drugs debate in terms that Washington — which firmly stands by the drug...
View ArticleMexico drug war: 20 bodies dumped near holiday hotspot
Latest spate of cartel violence was in the Lake Chapala region popular with US retirees and tourists. Alex Leff Mexican authorities report 20 dismembered bodies found in the state of Jalisco, presumed...
View ArticleDrug war: Hondurans rage against US commandos
Did a US-backed antidrug squad kill innocent pregnant women? Alex Leff Hardly a week after a US Army antidrug squad in Honduras made the front-page of The New York Times, America’s Special Forces...
View ArticleUruguay’s government, new pot dealer on the block
This week, Uruguayan President Jose Mujica sent a bill to Congress that would allow a chain of nationalized dispensaries to supply the soft drug in controlled amounts to registered adult users. The...
View ArticleMexico's army finds drug tunnel to Arizona
Mexico’s army stumbled upon another secret tunnel for smuggling drugs into the United States, according to wire reports. This one is 755-feet long, dug 60 feet beneath the ground and runs across the...
View ArticleDEA brings deadly force to Honduras
When the Central American country with the largest US military presence — Honduras — also became the region’s preferred landing zone for international cocaine traffickers, it was probably inevitable...
View ArticleBelize could decriminalize pot possession
The Central American country is considering a plan to stop handing jail sentences to those caught with up to 10 grams of marijuana. Alex Leff Belize’s government is considering reforms that would ease...
View ArticleNavy SEALs to target El Chapo: report
According to Danger Room, the Pentagon reportedly plans on sending the SEALs by helicopter after El Chapo, who is supposedly hiding in the mountains of the western Mexican states of Sinaloa and...
View ArticleVenezuela nabs Colombian kingpin 'Loco' Barrera
CARACAS — The Venezuelan government Wednesday morning lauded its capture of Daniel Barrera, a Colombian drug trafficker known as “El Loco,” in San Cristobal on its side of the dense jungle border with...
View ArticleLegalize it, mayors say in British Columbia, Canada
Mayors say they’re wasting precious police and municipal resources while giving up a potential revenue source. read more
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