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'No idea what they are up against': Argentina is stepping up its offensive...
Argentina’s government has stepped up security at the ports in its main grain-exporting hub of Rosario, counting on cooperation with private terminal operators to keep drug traffickers away from a key...
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Spain's crystal-meth problem may be about to get worse
Methamphetamine use in Spain is very low, but a concentration of users in Barcelona and recent busts have caused concern that the drug could spread to other communities in the country.According to...
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Colombian traffickers have added drones to their smuggling arsenal
Drug traffickers in northern Colombia have turned to drone aircraft to move illicit cargoes across borders, according to Colombian police.Police in the coastal town of Bahía Solano, in the department...
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Argentina just extradited 'My Blood,' one of Colombia's most well-connected...
On Thursday, Argentine authorities sent one of Colombia's most powerful and connected drug traffickers to the US to face trial.Henry Jesus Lopez Londoño, aka "Mi Sangre," or "My Blood," was arrested in...
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Nephews of Venezuela's first lady convicted of drug-smuggling conspiracy in a...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Two nephews of Venezuela's first lady were found guilty on Friday on U.S. charges that they tried to carry out a multimillion-dollar drug deal to obtain a large amount of cash to...
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Border agents seize $4.2 million in cocaine in the latest sign of shifting...
US Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations agents seized 328 pounds of cocaine from a vessel near Puerto Rico on November 15, in what is the latest sign that traffickers may be...
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The conviction of Venezuela's 'narco nephews' may bring more heat on a...
Late on Friday, after several hours of deliberation, jurors filed back into a New York courtroom and handed down a guilty verdict against two nephews of the Venezuelan first lady.Their decision, the...
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'The discoveries are terrible': One of Mexico's most violent states is seeing...
During the weekend before Thanksgiving, violence in Guerrero state in southwest Mexico claimed the lives of as many as 27 people — some of them found dismembered, others gunned down on the streets of...
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In the world's 2nd-biggest cocaine producer, narco traffickers are expanding...
Drug trafficking from Peruvian ports has risen in recent years as criminal networks groom dockworkers to smuggle packets of cocaine into shipping containers, the country's new anti-narcotics agency,...
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Police intercepted 5,700 pounds of cocaine near the coast of one of Europe's...
Spanish and Moroccan police seized 5,677 pounds of cocaine and arrested 24 suspects in what officials said was a blow against one of the main drug-trafficking organizations operating in Europe, Africa,...
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Mexican defense minister: It's 'unnatural' to send the military to fight drug...
Mexico City (AFP) — Mexico's defense minister has complained about his troops having to take part in the country's war on drug trafficking — a rare expression of criticism of the controversial,...
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'Desire for eternity': Mexico's narco cemetery is full of tombs that are...
Culiacan (Mexico) (AFP) - Some drug lords take their ostentatious lifestyle literally to the grave: A cemetery in Mexico is blooming with two-story tombs fitted with living rooms, air conditioning and...
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Mexico caught the cartel boss who reportedly almost took out 'El Chapo'...
Alfredo Beltran Guzmán, the Mexican narco scion thought to be the current leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, was arrested in a barbershop near the city of Guadalajara on Friday.Mexican federal police,...
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Mexico just approved a major change to its drug policy
Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill on Tuesday that would allow for the use of medical marijuana, in a further step toward outright legalization in a country long wracked by warring drug...
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Peruvian cops have enlisted Santa Claus in their efforts to combat rampant crime
A special division of Lima's police force has been known to dress as street sweepers, vendors, or as homeless people in order to patrol its territory and detect criminal activity.With the Christmas...
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Police took down a Sydney crime syndicate and made 'the largest cocaine...
Australian police dismantled a major cocaine smuggling ring after a two-and-a-half-year multi-agency operation undertaken with Tahiti, Australian authorities announced on Thursday.Operation Okesi,...
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Cocaine seizures are at a 10-year high in a Latin American trafficking hub
2016 saw the most cocaine seizures in the last decade for Guatemala, according to the country's anti-drug prosecutor.Guatemalan authorities intercepted 27,397.3 pounds of cocaine last year, Aldo Chapas...
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Haitian senator-elect and former coup leader taken to the US to face...
Miami (AFP) - A onetime Haitian coup leader who was recently elected senator has been taken to the United States to face longstanding federal drug trafficking charges, officials said Friday.Guy...
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Trump's Homeland Security pick is seen as the best man for the job, but they...
Despite the acrimony around many of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet selections, the confirmation hearing for one of them, Homeland Security Secretary candidate Gen. John Kelly, appears to be...
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Border agents seize $30 million in cocaine in the heart of a resurgent...
Agents from the US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations unit detected a vessel laden with 2,000 pounds of cocaine in the Caribbean early this year, before moving in to seize the...
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