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Police in Peru took down an international drug ring hiding cocaine in vegetables
Peruvian police found a little over 4,508 pounds of cocaine hidden in packages of asparagus destined for Amsterdam on Wednesday.Upon searching the property, authorities found pallets of cans of...
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Deep in the Amazon jungle, Brazil is stepping up its fight against brutal...
VILA BITTENCOURT, Brazil (Reuters) — In an isolated army outpost deep in the Amazon jungle, Felipe Castro leads 70 soldiers on the frontline of Brazil’s fight against its biggest security threat: the...
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Italian police busted a mafia group trying to smuggle over a billion dollars'...
Italian anti-mafia police said they busted an international drug ring and arrested 54 people with ties to notorious mafia group 'Ndrangheta attempting to smuggle cocaine with a street value of $1.7...
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A US judge orders Mexican kingpin 'El Chapo' Guzmán to appear by video link
New York (AFP) — A US judge has ordered that Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman appear by video link at his next court hearing to avoid unnecessary transfers for one of the world's most...
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A maintenance worker accidentally found 31 pounds of cocaine hidden in an...
(Reuters) - An airline maintenance worker in Oklahoma found 31 pounds (14 kg) of cocaine in the nose cone of an American Airlines jet after it arrived from Colombia, police said on Monday.Seven bricks...
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Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency says army will only play a 'support' role...
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops will only provide back-up in the war on drugs and not patrol the streets or play any kind of leading role, the head of an anti-narcotics agency that has been given...
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US border agents busted 110 pounds of an East African stimulant in Pittsburgh...
US Customs and Border Patrol agents in Pittsburgh made an unusual find on Monday, when a shipment marked as "general products" was found to be concealing over 100 pounds of an stimulant found in...
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Killings in Mexico climbed to new highs in 2016, and the violent rhythm may...
Mexico recorded the deadliest year of President Enrique Peña Nieto's four-year-old sexenio, or six-year term, in 2016.The country saw a 22% increase in homicide cases, rising from 17,034 in 2015 to...
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US charges 6 current and former TSA agents over a cocaine smuggling operation...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twelve people, including six current and former Transportation Security Administration agents in Puerto Rico, have been charged with smuggling some 20 tons of cocaine into the...
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US border agents found another catapult flinging drugs over the US-Mexico...
US border patrol agents at the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry southeast of Tucson encountered one of Mexican smugglers' more low-tech methods for moving drugs over the border on Friday.While on patrol...
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Venezuela's vice president took out a full-page ad in The New York Times to...
Tareck El Aissami, the recently appointed vice president in Venezuela, took out a full-page in The New York Times on Wednesday to rebuke sanctions against him and other Venezuelan officials leveled by...
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Mexico's retaliation against Trump may be taking shape
President Donald Trump has railed against Mexico since early in his presidential campaign, criticizing the US's southern neighbor over matters of trade, immigration, and security.Since his election in...
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'How much are you going to buy?': The Philippines' drug trade forges on with...
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs had until three weeks ago driven the trade in crystal methamphetamine underground, according to residents and drug users in some...
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People in Latin America are starting to turn against outlawing marijuana
Sentiments in Latin America in favor of outlawing marijuana appear to be undergoing shifts in some countries, according to researchers in Chile and the UK.A study published the International Journal of...
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'They want to be that criminal': Pablo Escobar's son slams TV series for...
Madrid (AFP) - The son of infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar slammed depictions of his father's life like those in the hit Netflix series "Narcos," saying they "glorify" criminals, in an...
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Mexico's criminal and political worlds are shifting, and 2017 is off to the...
Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, in one form or another, ran Mexico as a de facto one-party state from the 1930s until 2000, when Vicente Fox interrupted the PRI's hold on the presidency.The...
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Colombia produces most of the world's cocaine — and output is at a record-high
Colombia is the world's top producer of cocaine, and cultivation of coca, the drug's base product, has hit record levels two years in a row.The area under coca cultivation grew 39% in 2014 and 42% in...
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The world's 2nd-largest cocaine producer is adding drones to its police force
The Peruvian National Police force is developing a unit of unmanned aircraft for use in aerial patrols and to boost citizen security.According to Interior Minister Carlos Basombrio Iglesias, the drones...
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'They'll tunnel anywhere they want': Go inside the underground passages...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — They are known in the U.S. Border Patrol as "tunnel rats"— agents who go in clandestine passages that have proliferated on the U.S.-Mexico border over the past 20 years to smuggle...
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'Like a block of cheese with holes in it' — How Mexican cartels will subvert...
"We will build a great wall along the southern border," President Donald Trump said this summer, months prior to his election.Since he took office in January, Trump, along with his Homeland Security...
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