Counternarcotics
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 06:24
The 5,000 inhabitants of this Quechua-speaking region in Peru's top cocaine-producing valley on Thursday got health care, medicine, eyeglasses and shoes from two mobile hospitals sent by the country's military.
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 06:15
At least 18 Farc rebel fighters were killed during an operation by Colombia’s army on Thursday, in one of the most deadly confrontations since the guerrillas began peace talks with the government more than two years ago.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 06:32
Despite animosity between the Farc and the US, which considers the rebel group ‘narco-terrorists’, envoy Bernard Aronson is seen as a critical voice at peace talks.
Friday, May 15, 2015 - 12:15
The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, in coordination with U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), conducted a two-day training for Dominican prosecutors, in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Friday, May 15, 2015 - 06:56
Six people died in a plane crash involving a Cessna light aircraft, in Chihuahua, informed the Attorney General of the State, that started as an investigation before when someone reported that the aircraft had been brought down by armed persons in a drug trafficking zone.
Friday, May 15, 2015 - 06:38
The government of Colombia on Thursday night rejected a major tool in the American-backed antidrug campaign — ordering a halt to the aerial spraying of the country’s vast illegal plantings of coca, the crop used to make cocaine, citing concerns that the spray causes cancer.
Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 07:35
Turkmen President hosted an event focused on regional cooperation and coordination to counter the problem of illicit drugs in Central Asia. A regional anti-drug trafficking pact known as the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was renewed at the meeting.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 08:07
A Guatemalan woman who ran one of the largest drug trafficking and money laundering rings in Central America has been sentenced in secret in the US.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 07:44
A top US military official has lauded Honduras' efforts to combat drug trafficking, saying the country is no longer among the principal transit points for cocaine heading to the United States. But there are reasons to be skeptical of such a rosy outlook.
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 07:47
The United States will deliver the equipment, patrol boats and cars worth $6.2 million to Uzbekistan, the US embassy in Uzbekistan reported.
The deliveries will be carried out free of charge as part of an earlier signed supplement to the agreement of Uzbekistan and the US, dated Aug. 14, 2001, on assistance in the drug control and law enforcement.