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Mexico's defense chief: 'We have committed errors' in the war on drugs
The head of Mexico’s National Defense Secretariat said in an interview that Mexico had made a mistake in deploying the military as part of the country’s war against drug cartels and organized crime.“Of...
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The US government spent $86 million on an antidrug plane for Afghanistan that...
The US government spent $86 million over seven years developing a counter-narcotics surveillance aircraft for Afghanistan, but the plane has never carried out a mission and is sitting idle in Delaware,...
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'A candy store for smugglers': Step inside the million-dollar drug tunnels...
US federal prosecutors announced on March 23 that authorities had uncovered a 400-yard tunnel between Mexicali, Mexico, and Calexico, California, and 1,350 pounds of marijuana traveling through it.Just...
View ArticleWhy most of the profits in the drug business stay in the United States
Tom Wainwright, author of "Narconomics," is the former Mexico City bureau chief for The Economist. He explains why most of the profits in the illegal drug business stay in the United States. You may be...
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An agent discovered another tunnel on the US border after nearly falling into it
A US Border Patrol agent came across a depression in the ground along the US-Mexico border while on patrol 2 miles east of the Calexico, California, border crossing.The agent approached the area — near...
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One of the world's top cocaine producers will now shoot down suspected drug...
Peru has been one of the world's top cocaine producers for decades, and as a part of the fight against drugs, the country reinstated a discarded law allowing the shooting-down of suspected drug planes,...
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Police have captured 'the Snail' — Peru's most-wanted drug lord
Peruvian crime lord Gerson Gálvez Calle — alias "Caracol" or Snail — was arrested in Colombia on Saturday and immediately deported home.Colombian authorities uploaded a video of the alleged head of the...
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'El Chapo' Guzmán had more airplanes than the biggest airline in Mexico
Before he was recaptured in January, Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán ran the largest airborne operation in Mexico.Between 2006 and 2015, Mexican authorities seized 599 aircraft — 586...
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The ECB is getting rid of drug cartels' favorite currency
The European central bank announced on Wednesday that it would permanently stop production of the 500-euro note, worth about $575 at current rates, and stop issuing the notes around the end of 2018,...
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'El Chapo' Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel was melting down its profits to sneak them...
For drug cartels, hiding the profits of their illicit sales is often as hard as getting the goods to the market in the first place.To overcome that challenge, US-based members of imprisoned Mexican...
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Mexico sent 'El Chapo' Guzmán to its worst prison, and it's not clear what's...
Mexico's prison system has been called a "disaster," and drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán just got sent to the worst lockup in the country.Guzmán was transferred early Saturday morning to Cefereso...
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The FBI seized $2.3 million linked to 'El Chapo' Guzmán's hometown from a...
The FBI seized $2.3 million in cash reportedly belonging to a group linked to the hometown of imprisoned Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán from a house near Disneyland, the agency said...
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US border agents caught nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana hidden in coconuts
US Customs and Border Patrol agents uncovered 1,423 pounds of what is believed to be marijuana hidden in a shipment of coconuts crossing the US-Mexico border at the Pharr International Bridge, near...
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The son of a former Central American president pleaded guilty for trying to...
The son of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, a year after his arrest in Haiti as part of a U.S. Drug Enforcement...
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Mexico's biggest cartels have turned one of the country's smallest states...
Nestled between Jalisco and Michoacan states on the southwest Pacific coast, the state of Colima is one of the smallest in Mexico in both size and population.But Colima's location is strategically...
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Mexico's drug cartels have turned a tourist mecca into 'Guerrero's Iraq'
The idyllic Pacific coast town of Acapulco in Mexico’s Guerrero state once welcomed Hollywood stars and honeymooners, but the city has suffered a wave of bloody violence in recent years, as cartels and...
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What Colombian farmers can buy when they use cocaine's raw ingredient as...
Colombia has long been the world's top producer of coca, the raw ingredient used to make cocaine. UN data showed a 44% increase in coca cultivation in 2015, to 69,000 acres. US government estimates put...
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Cocaine seizures have jumped in Colombia, and it's likely a sign of a...
Cocaine seizures along Colombia's Pacific Coast have spiked so far this year, suggesting criminal groups and traffickers in the country have undertaken a significant shift that could mean trouble for...
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One of the world's longest wars is on the verge of ending
The Colombian government and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) took what appears to be the last major step toward ending one of the longest-running wars in the world on...
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Italy, Colombia, and the US just took down 33 drug traffickers smuggling 11...
Italian, Colombian and US police have seized 11 tonnes of cocaine and arrested 33 people from a mafia-linked ring which refined the drug in the jungles of Colombia and smuggled it out in containers of...
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