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War-torn North Africa is becoming a major hub for smuggled cocaine
Summary List PlacementWithin the span of a week, cocaine was discovered in two separate maritime cargo containers bound for Libya, a strong indication that both the North African country and the...
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Mexico's president claims the US made up evidence that a former defense...
Summary List PlacementThe federal Attorney General's Office (FGR) has exonerated former defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos of drug trafficking and money laundering charges less than two months after...
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US Navy helicopters and Coast Guard snipers are firing on suspected drug...
Summary List PlacementNearly a year after deploying more ships and aircraft to the waters around South and Central America, the Navy and Coast Guard continue to make multi-ton drug busts, and their...
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Mexico's Sinaloa cartel built an empire on cocaine, but it's betting on...
Summary List PlacementCuliacán, MEXICO — Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel built an empire on cocaine, but it's shifting its focus to a new, more powerful drug in in response to changing demand in the...
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The wife of convicted drug kingpin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been arrested in the...
Summary List PlacementWASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested on Monday at an airport in Virginia on international drug trafficking...
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Mexico's tourist corridor is becoming a dream destination for drug traffickers
Summary List PlacementA recent string of high-profile drug plane interceptions suggests the once tranquil Mexican state of Quintana Roo is being increasingly relied upon as a drug trafficking hub.On...
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Europe's cocaine busts are reaching record heights
Summary List PlacementWhile the seizure of 23 tons of cocaine by German, Belgian and Dutch police — the largest-ever haul of the drug in the European Union — was noteworthy, it serves as merely the...
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Police in Spain have seized the first 'narco sub' built in Europe
Summary List PlacementAuthorities in Europe — already overwhelmed by a flood of cocaine arriving in cargo ships — now must face another smuggling method that has bedeviled law enforcement in the...
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A new DEA map shows where cartels have influence in the US. Cartel operatives...
Summary List PlacementCIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — The US Drug Enforcement Administration recently released its annual National Drug Threat Assessment, in which it maps out the states where Mexican drug...
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US and Mexican sanctions offer a glimpse of who actually runs Mexico's...
Summary List PlacementSanctions recently imposed by the United States and Mexico on CJNG members allegedly linked to two high-profile murders demonstrate that the criminal group is one of the few...
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The end of pandemic-related lockdown is bringing a wave of cocaine to Puerto...
Summary List PlacementPuerto Rico is seeing a surge in cocaine seizures, indicating that drug flows are being reactivated after months of dormancy amid pandemic lockdowns and that the island is on...
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Mexico's cartels are experimenting with control of another part of the...
Summary List PlacementMEXICO — Mexican drug cartels' longstanding attempts to bring coca plantations out of South America and onto their turf may be bearing fruit.Mexico's military found and destroyed...
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One of the DEA's most-wanted men wants to be mayor of some of Mexico's most...
Summary List PlacementMEXICO - Mexico's midterm elections on June 6 will be the largest in the country's history, with voters choosing candidates for more than 21,000 offices.One of those candidates is...
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The US and Mexico aren't on 'the same page' about cartels, and now thousands...
Summary List PlacementMichoacan, MEXICO — Since the arrest of former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda on US soil last year, the two countries' efforts to coordinate a security agenda...
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'Like a flying ant': An operative describes how Mexico's cartels use drones...
Summary List PlacementMEXICO — Tweaked commercial drones are now part of Mexican drug cartels' arsenal for attacking enemies and smuggling drugs into the US, according to recent reports and cartel...
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To help fight COVID-19, Mexico is going to give away the mansions of 2...
Summary List PlacementCiudad Juarez, MEXICO — The million-dollar houses of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, formerly boss of the Sinaloa Cartel, and Amado Carrillo Fuentes, deceased boss of the Juárez...
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US Space Force has fired its first shots of the drug war
Summary List PlacementSpace Force is the newest US military branch, and it has now joined the US's longest-running war.The 45th Security Forces Squadron seized roughly 65 pounds of cocaine found on a...
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The man who got the FBI's fake messaging app off the ground says pulling off...
Summary List PlacementThe arrests of more than 800 suspected drug and gun traffickers last week in one of the biggest police stings in history wasn't the only goal of the FBI developing a fake...
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'El Chapo' has been locked up for 5 years, but business has never been better...
Summary List PlacementMEXICO — It's been five years since Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was arrested for the last time. He's been in a US "supermax" prison since 2017, serving a life sentence after being...
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Recent arrests reveal more about how cartel wives help run operations for...
Summary List PlacementCiudad Juarez, MEXICO - The infamous Sinaloa Cartel is relying on its wives to keep its more complicated operations going, according to cartel operatives, security analysts, and...
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