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The US and Mexico may be teaming up to fight heroin, but the enemy is...
At the beginning of April, the Mexican army took US military officials, UN personnel, and officials from the US embassy on a tour of a half-dozen sites in the Golden Triangle — the heart of Mexico's...
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The US Coast Guard just unloaded $500 million worth in cocaine
US Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton unloaded about 18.5 tons of cocaine worth $498 million seized in 20 separate incidents in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean.The drugs were intercepted off...
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Tillerson: The US 'must own' problem of drug addiction in order to stem drug...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Americans "must own" the problem of narcotics addiction if it wants to end the scourge of drug trafficking and cross-border violence.Tillerson...
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Colombia says it's convincing drug farmers to grow other crops — but drug...
The meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and President Donald Trump on Thursday focused heavily on the drug trade, something both leaders have targeted during their time in...
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'I guess you're here about the opium': Police find $500 million in poppy...
CLAREMONT, N.C. (AP) — A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff says.Catawba County Sheriff Coy...
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'Jihadist drug' Captagon seized for first time in France
Paris (AFP) - French customs officials said Tuesday that they had intercepted 135 kilogrammes (300 pounds) of Captagon, dubbed the "jihadists' drug," at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport this year, a...
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Southeast Asian narco-gangs are churning out new highs faster than they can...
Bangkok (AFP) - Southeast Asian drug cartels are diversifying the narcotics they produce, the UN's crime agency warned Wednesday, with more than 160 new highs hitting the market in the last eight...
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Colombia is closing in on the leaders of its biggest gang, but they're...
Colombia's peace process with the left-wing rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is stumbling forward.FARC rebels recently announced they had turned in 30% of their weapons, but...
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Trump's hardline on US relations with Cuba could create a blind spot in a...
President Donald Trump announced on Friday the reversal of several key parts of Barack Obama's normalization of relations with Cuba, which started in December 2014.Before an enthusiastic anti-Castro...
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A bloody, 3-sided war is raging in Mexico for control of 'El Chapo' Guzman's...
Mexico City (AFP) - Since the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extradited to the United States, a war has broken out for control of his Sinaloa cartel, leaving a growing trail...
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4 common misconceptions about how drugs get to the US through Mexico and...
The issue of illegal narcotics flowing from Latin America into the US through Central America and Mexico has come to the fore in recent months, as policymakers in Washington turn their attention to the...
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Man accused of moving cocaine through children's day care in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Children played and slept surrounded by pounds of cocaine at a Los Angeles day care center that a man used as a drug trafficking hub, authorities said."The cocaine was allegedly...
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Trump's Cuba policy has created doubt about an important front in the US war...
The rollback of relations with Cuba announced by President Donald Trump earlier this month has left many facets of the renewed relationship in doubt.Though the goal was to "chill" trips to the island...
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'El Chapo' Guzman's powerful Sinaloa cartel is withering while he sits in a...
Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extradited to the US on January 19 and has occupied a cell in a high-security facility in Manhattan ever since, awaiting his trial in April 2018.As...
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Approximately 30 people killed or wounded in shootout in northern Mexican...
At least 26 people died or were wounded in a shootout in the northern Mexican border state of Chihuahua early on Wednesday, a spokesman from that state's attorney general's office told Reuters.The...
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Coast Guard officials say they're struggling to keep up with the drugs...
In 2016, the Coast Guard seized a record 45,000 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of $6 billion, intercepted almost 7,000 people trying to enter the US illegally, and stopped a record-breaking...
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Brazil is sending 1,000 extra officers to deal with spiraling violence in Rio...
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - The Brazilian government has deployed a thousand additional personnel to combat insecurity in Rio de Janeiro, which has seen a spike in violence in recent months, authorities...
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DEA agents posed as leftist Colombian guerrillas to catch an international...
A man from the Ivory Coast has pleaded guilty in a US court to offering support to undercover DEA agents posing as members of Colombia's FARC guerrilla group, raising questions about the handling of...
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7 things Trump gets wrong about MS-13
US President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched a rhetorical campaign this week against the MS13, one of the most violent gangs in Central America.But the verbal offensive by the...
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Mexico's Sinaloa cartel has reportedly teamed up with a Romanian gang to ship...
A European branch of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel has formed an alliance with a Romanian criminal group in order to smuggle narcotics into the UK, The Times of London reports, citing Britain's National...
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