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How one Colombian family allegedly helped 'El Chapo' dominate global drug...
The fugitive drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has finally been recaptured after escaping from a Mexican prison. He may end up serving time in a notorious US "supermax" facility.To get an idea of how...
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'El Chapo' Guzmán is willing to plead guilty in the US, but under one big...
Recently recaptured drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is willing to plead guilty to drug-trafficking charges filed against him in the US — but under one condition.He doesn't want to go to a...
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Peru is turning into Latin America's newest 'narco'-state
Peru has long vied with Colombia as the world's top producer of cocaine, but has only periodically produced high profile drug lords.Gerson Gálvez Calle — alias "Caracol" or Snail — is one of...
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There's a little-known connection between Islamic terrorism and drug money
Terrorists are in it as much for the loot as for the ideology.The Islamic State, or ISIS, could hardly exist, whatever its Islamist fervor, without hard cash from sales of pilfered petroleum, taxes on...
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'Drunk on his own wine': How 'El Chapo' Guzmán's mistakes led to his capture
When vaunted Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán slipped out of a high-security prison and disappeared in July, most observers expected a protracted search, as happened during the 13 years...
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'Of course he is not violent': 'El Chapo' Guzmán's wife defends him in her...
Emma Coronel, the wife of jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, sat down for her first public interview on Sunday, defending her husband to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández.“He is like any...
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Mexico's most violent state is feeding America’s heroin problem
The links between bloodshed in Mexico and US drug consumption are extensive. For Mexico’s most violent state, Guerrero, surging heroin use in the US has fed a cycle of violence that has killed and...
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2 of Mexico's most powerful cartels are clashing just across the US border
Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, Mexico’s fastest-growing and most violent cartel, appears to be moving into Sinaloa cartel territory in Tijuana, just across the border from San Diego.CJNG is...
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'El Chapo' Guzmán wants to be extradited to the US
Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has asked his defense team to expedite his extradition to the US because he is being mistreated in a Mexican maximum-security prison, his lawyer said...
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Here's where America's heroin comes from
Heroin consumed in the US comes mainly from Afghanistan and Mexico, members of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said in Mexico City on Wednesday, March 2.INCB's 2015 report also...
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US agents busted $2 million of cocaine in Florida, and it may be the latest...
Field Operations officers from US Customs and Border Protection intercepted about 154 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated value of $2 million, last month hidden on a ship arriving at Port Everglades...
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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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A Colombian woman was just busted smuggling cocaine into Germany in her breasts
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 24-year-old Colombian woman was arrested at Frankfurt airport after she was found to be carrying 1 kg (2.2 pounds) of cocaine inside her breasts, German customs officials said on...
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US forces are ill-equipped to stop illegal drugs and migrants, says a top...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US forces responsible for disrupting the flow of illegal drugs and migrants to the US lack the airplanes and ships needed to perform their mission at the level set by the...
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NARCONOMICS: 'The real drugs millionaires are right here in the United States'
Americans spent $109 billion on illegal drugs in 2010, according to a White House study, roughly the same as the $108 billion they spent on illegal narcotics in 2000.And while most of those drugs are...
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'It doesn't matter how tall of a wall you put up': Trump's border-wall plan...
Donald Trump's border-wall proposal has been roundly excoriated, and experts have told Business Insider that the wall itself would not only be impractical, but it may also embolden the very criminals...
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US agents nearly caught $194 million worth of cocaine in a narco submarine
US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations agents had a close call with a high-value target in the Pacific Ocean.The crew of a P-3 Long Range Tracker, working as part of a joint...
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Mexican official says that one of Mexico's most powerful cartels is expanding...
The Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel — one of Mexico's strongest and fastest-growing criminal organizations — is moving into Baja California, just across the border from the US, according to an official...
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Mexico just took down 'King Midas' — 'El Chapo' Guzmán's top money-launderer
Mexican federal police and military units arrested Juan Manuel Álvarez Inzunza, aka “King Midas,” the alleged top money-launderer for the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, on Sunday in the...
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Watch the US Coast Guard seize a narco submarine carrying 12,800 pounds of...
The US Coast Guard stopped and seized a self-propelled semi-submersible carrying 12,800 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of roughly $200 million on March 3.The semi-submersible, sometimes...
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