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Philippine businesses are jumping at the chance to make deals with China, but...
The Chinese government said on Wednesday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will visit China from October 18 to 21.But even before the visit was confirmed, business leaders and executives in the...
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Mexico says it wants to rid itself of cartel kingpin 'El Chapo' Guzmán by the...
Mexico wants to send Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to the US in the first two months of next year, the country's national security commissioner said on Friday. "We hope (to do it) in...
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'It's a very sophisticated concealment': Australian police just made their...
Sydney (AFP) - Two Polish nationals have been charged after Australian police seized more than 1.2 tonnes (2.2 tons) of ecstasy in the country's biggest drugs haul of the year, officials said...
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Caribbean smuggling routes are still active, and 400 pounds of marijuana...
In less than 30 days between September and October this year, Customs and Border Protection agents and the US Coast Guard recovered nearly 400 pounds of marijuana floating in the waters off the Florida...
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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 despite confusion over the proposal that arose during his meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto earlier this week, Trump...
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A narco tunnel has been found on the US-Mexico border, but it's not clear...
Official from the US and Mexico confirmed last week that a tunnel connecting Tijuana and San Diego had been found, one of dozens of such tunnels discovered along the border over the last five years.An...
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Marijuana legalization may have an unexpected result: Drug smuggling into Mexico
Next month, Californians will vote on a raft of propositions, including one that would legalize recreational production and consumption of marijuana.Proposition 64 would allow Californians over 21 to...
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Drug traffickers may be returning to a popular smuggling route into the US
US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations intercepted a small wooden vessel carrying two men and $3.6 million in cocaine on Sunday, the latest sign that the Caribbean smuggling routes...
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Here's what's driven changes in cocaine prices on US streets since the 1980s
Cocaine has been a high-profile feature of the American drug world since it arrived in the US in the early 1980s.But since those first few years on the scene, cocaine prices have remained relatively...
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An Italian criminal group is trying a new, low-tech way to smuggle cocaine...
Nearly 850 pounds of cocaine was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday, after the crew of a freighter tossed the load into the water while on their way to the Calabrian port of Gioia...
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Mexico's biggest cartel is leaderless, and drug violence may be about to...
In mid-June, 150 armed men descended on a small community called La Tuna in the central highlands of Mexico's Sinaloa state, looting homes and leaving multiple people dead.The gunmen, who are believed...
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An alert Italian customs official caught $2.2 million worth of cocaine hidden...
Rome (AFP) - How much jogging can one person do? On holiday? In Rome?An alert Italian customs officer asking those questions has exposed the latest ingenious ploy of Latin American drugs traffickers:...
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Watch the US Coast Guard seize a narco sub laden with more than 5,600 pounds...
Crew members of US Coast Guard Cutter Waesche intercepted and boarded a self-propelled semisubmersible, often called a narco submarine, carrying more than 5,600 pounds of cocaine in early September.The...
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'The Americans are hitting us hard with money': US prosecutors say 'narco...
US prosecutors say conversations between one of the Venezuelan first lady's nephews and an informant reveal the political motivations behind what has become known as the "narco nephews" case that has...
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'Better to be belligerent than innovative': Argentina's new approach to...
In late January this year, at little more than a month after he took office, Argentine President Mauricio Marci issued a presidential decree declaring a "state of emergency" in South America's...
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The US Coast Guard hauled in a record amount of cocaine this year
The US Coast Guard reported a record cocaine haul in 2016 — more than 416,000 pounds, significantly exceeding the previous record of 367,700 pounds intercepted in 2008.The haul was seized during 263...
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A Mexican cartel enforcer says a drug hotspot just across the border is...
Ciudad Juarez, a major drug transshipment point just across the border from El Paso, Texas, is headed for another clash between cartels, a cartel enforcer told El Universal in a late-October...
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'The agents are bought': A cartel enforcer says US border agents are on his...
Smugglers have long made use of the expansive US-Mexico border to avoid American authorities posted along the frontier.But official border crossings in places like El Paso and San Diego are still focal...
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Despite 15 years of occupation, Afghanistan’s opium production has only gone up
After 15 years of war in Afghanistan, the government there and its allies from the US and elsewhere have had little success staunching the flow of opium and heroin out of the South Asian...
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Drug flights are shuttling cocaine and other drugs around South America on a...
Drug traffickers in South America are making heavy use of clandestine flights to move drugs around the continent, and while authorities can detect them, their ability to stop them is still limited.An...
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