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Trump's 'humiliating' phone call with Mexico's president appears to be less...
President Donald Trump's late-January call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was originally reported as "a very offensive conversation" in which Trump lambasted Peña Nieto and hinted at harsh...
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The French navy busted a nearly 1.5 metric ton load of cocaine being smuggled...
Sydney (AFP) - A massive cocaine haul bound for Australia in the hull of a yacht has been intercepted by the French navy in the Pacific, officials said on Friday.The 1.46 tonnes of the drug with an...
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The son of 'El Chapo' Guzman's former right-hand man has been indicted in the...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The son of a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel has been indicted on drug smuggling charges in the United States and pleaded not guilty on Monday, less than two weeks after surrendering...
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The Taliban appears to have made a big move into Afghanistan's drug production
Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban — which banned poppy cultivation when it ruled Afghanistan — now appears to wield significant control over the war-torn country's heroin production line, providing insurgents...
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Mexico's deadly narco violence is creeping into its most popular tourist areas
Mexico's deadly drug-related violence surged to a new record in June, with 2,566 homicides that month alone.The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first...
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announces 'dead or alive' bounties for...
Manila (AFP) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday announced "dead-or-alive" bounties worth $40,000 each for policemen he accused of helping an accused narco-politician, and said he...
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The US sanctioned a 'smooth as butter' cartel operator and a Mexican soccer...
The US Treasury sanctioned an alleged mid-level Mexican drug-cartel operator and his organization on Wednesday, naming them as significant foreign narcotics traffickers.The Office of Foreign Assets...
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Fake drugs laced with a legal drug 50 times stronger than heroin are showing...
In recent months while screening samples of heroin they had acquired on the street, British police discovered a drug whose appearance they had been dreading — fentanyl, the dangerously strong...
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Violence in Rio de Janeiro has gotten so bad a newspaper is covering it in...
Nearly 5,000 troops and police were sent into favelas around Rio de Janeiro during the first weekend of August, deployed in an operation responding to a wave of commercial-truck robberies around the...
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The 'godfather' of Mexico's cartels has been sentenced for killing of a DEA...
A federal judge in Mexico's Jalisco state on August 23 sentenced one-time Guadalajara cartel chief Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo to 37 years in prison for the 1985 killing of US Drug Enforcement...
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What the Cali cartel learned from Pablo Escobar, according to a DEA agent who...
Medellin cartel chief Pablo Escobar had his life snuffed out on December 2, 1993, but his reputation as a brutal and prolific drug trafficker has lived on.Though he reigned over the Colombian...
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Why the fall of the Medellin cartel failed to stop the flow of drugs,...
Under the leadership of Pablo Escobar, the Medellin cartel moved immense amounts of drugs and brought in stratospheric profits.By one measure, they were raking in $420 million a week by the mid-1980s,...
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Here's how drugs are getting smuggled from South America to the US
The cultivation of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, in Colombia spiked 134% between 2013 and 2016, after hitting a low in 2012.That period also saw the two largest year-over-year increases in...
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The Coast Guard is struggling with 'a capacity challenge' amid a cocaine boom
US Coast Guard officials have warned several times that their units are unable to keep up with the flows of illegal narcotics coming to the US from South and Central America.Vice Adm. Charles Ray, the...
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US officials are raising alarm over Colombia's cocaine boom, but they may be...
Cocaine production is up 134% in Colombia.US officials have criticized the Colombian government for its response to that increase.But alienating Colombia could undermine relations with other countries...
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The killing of a 'Narcos' location scout underscores the complexity of...
Carlos Muñoz Portal, 37, was found slain in his car on an unnamed dirt road in the community of San Bartolo Actopan in northeast Mexico state on September 11.Muñoz was reportedly in the area, near the...
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The Coast Guard is detecting a new trend among high-seas narco smugglers
Since June, Coast Guard vessels patrolling the US's southern approaches have stopped seven low-profile smuggling vessels — stealthy ships that ride low in the water to spirit illicit cargos from South...
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Colombia is standing its ground in a war of words with the US over an...
Amid heated discord between the United States and Colombia regarding surging drug production in the South American country, Colombian officials are making it clear that they are not buckling under US...
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Philippine president has ordered the death of his own son, if he is found...
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has ordered his eldest son to be killed if it is proved that he is involved in drug trafficking."My orders are to kill you if you are caught, and I will protect the...
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Brazil sends hundreds of soldiers into a Rio slum as drug-related violence...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Brazilian soldiers poured into Rio de Janeiro's Rocinha slum on Friday in a bid to help the cash-strapped state government quell the drug-related violence that...
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