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A stunning number of new 'legal high' drugs are being discovered
Between 2009 and 2014, 324 new psychoactive substances (NPS) were reported to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), according to the organizations 2015 World Drug Report.These drugs are...
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These UN maps show how drugs flow around the globe
Increasingly globalized drug trafficking markets and constantly changing routes and transit points are challenging established anti-drug law enforcement practices, according to the World Drug...
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China is flooding the US with insane drug 'flakka' — and it's shockingly easy...
Florida police confronted a man in April 2015 who thought he was God or Thor, and had sex with a tree. When the officers tasered him, he managed to pull the electric probes off his body and try to stab...
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Colombia must now 'contemplate the risk that peace will not be secured'
While the nearly 12 million Syrians displaced are the most in the world, the second most come from a country where the situation is vastly different from Syria’s bloody four-year conflict:...
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Mexico's drug emperor used to arrive at a restaurant, confiscate everyone's...
The notorious drug kingpin who escaped from a maximum-security Mexican prison on Saturday loved gourmet food so much that, before his February 2014 arrest, he would emerge from hiding in the Sierra...
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'El Chapo's' escape is a major political crisis for Mexico
The spectacular escape of the world’s most notorious drug trafficker — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo — from a Mexican high-security prison is a massive embarrassment for the government of...
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Experts: The tunnel 'El Chapo' Guzman escaped from would take a year to build...
The kind of tunnel that led Mexico's most powerful drug lord to freedom would have been more than a year in planning. The digging would have caused noise. The entrance would have to be in a place...
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The formula for Mexicans to make drug money is hard to beat
In this excerpt from El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, journalist Ioan Grillo explains the finances of the Mexican drug war.The formula for Mexicans to make drug money is hard to beat.Take...
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This Mexican cartel 'super-tunnel' proves how far drug traffickers will go to...
The July 11 escape of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera depended on a magnificent feat of engineering.Guzman used a mile-long escape tunnel to flee from his prison cell to an...
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How Mexico could turn El Chapo’s escape into its worst nightmare
For the second time in 15 years, Joaquín "El Chapo," or "Shorty," Guzmán Loera has escaped from prison. El Chapo ran Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, arguably the most powerful drug-trafficking organization in...
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El Chapo's sons had a revealingly flamboyant luxury-watch collection
In the old days, secrecy and discretion were the rule for Mexican drug lords.Take Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, for example. Known as “the world’s most powerful trafficker,” the 60-year-old only appears...
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A handful of dangerous new legal drugs has public health experts worried
Over the past 20 years, the drug world has seen the rise of new psychoactive substances, mind-altering drugs that have been synthesized in a lab and sold as legal alternatives to illegal drugs like...
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The online black market exceeds $100 million in revenue every year
Combined revenue from the most popular dark Net sites, the online black market, exceeds $100 million every year. That’s according to researchers who found that, even after the founder of the Silk Road...
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The Mexican government is being forced to reveal its most wanted criminals
A resolution passed this week by the nation’s top transparency institute required the Peña Nieto administration to reveal who the top-priority targets are.When it does, the public will be in a better...
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14 of the boldest smuggling attempts
Earlier this week, Evelio Padilla, a 28-year-old Honduran immigrant, pleaded guilty in federal court to attempting to smuggle drugs into the country using scuba-diving gear and an underwater,...
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A 68-year-old man was sentenced to prison for running a massive drug ring...
John Bowen, a 68-year-old Las Vegas man, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Monday for his role as kingpin of a nationwide criminal organization that marketed and sold the drug "Spice" or...
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Here's what 200 pounds of cocaine worth $18 million looks like
On Thursday, Louisiana Sheriff's Office seized 2oo pounds of "pure cocaine" worth an estimated $18 million, local CBS affiliate WWLTV reports. Authorities from the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office...
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Mexico's drug smugglers have an ingenious answer to Donald Trump's border wall
Currently, the Mexico-US border division exists in the form of strategically placed barriers put in place as part of three large “operations” to reduce drug smuggling and illegal immigration.These are...
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The search for Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzmán may have just taken a...
In the morning on August 31, a Twitter account reportedly belonging to the son of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán posted a photo that appeared to show the two of them together in Costa Rica.The...
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Latin America's 2 largest economies are reeling — and they don't know what...
In Latin America, falling commodity pricesand uncertainty in some of the world’s most important economies appear to have hit the region’s two biggest economies hard.These economic struggles, when...
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