Drug Trade
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 06:15
U.S. prosecutors are investigating several high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including the president of the country’s congress, on suspicion that they have turned the country into a global hub for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the probes.
Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 07:15
Sixty percent of Peru's cocaine comes from the remote Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro river valley, and the backpackers trek for three to five days to deliver cocaine to traffickers who move the drugs on for export. The young men often become victims of the armed gangs, crooked police, and rival backpacker groups.
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.
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 07:01
Elements of the Marines and Federal Police detained today a presumed criminal leader in Reynosa, Tamaulipas nicknamed El Commandante 22 together with two other presumed criminals. The capture of El Commandante set off various narco blockades and confrontations between armed civilians and elements of the Marina and Federal Police.
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 06:53
Mexican officials said Sunday that they had captured a leader of the Juárez Cartel, Jesús Salas Aguayo, the man in charge of the gang’s operations in Ciudad Juárez during a convulsion of violence that made the city one of the world’s most murderous
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 07:54
Terrorists operating in the Middle East and Central Asia earn up to $500 million annually from production and trafficking of illicit drugs, chief of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), Igor Sergun, said Thursday.
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 06:49
A majority of United States lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday that they have lost confidence in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s chief amid allegations that agents attended sex parties with prostitutes in Colombia.Twenty-two of the committee’s 43 members signed a statement expressing no confidence in DEA head Michele Leonhart.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 07:26
USS Gary (FFG 51), her embarked Helicopter Squadron and U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment successfully intercepted a suspected narcotic-trafficking vessel in international waters off the coast of Central America in early March.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 06:42
In the latest large drug seizure in Tijuana, shortly on the heels of a 319 kilos of cocaine in a safe house, and 19 tons of marijuana at Otay, 8 tons were seized in Cerro Colorado