Drug Trade
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 13:23
This post was written with CIP Cuba Intern, Ashley Badesch
Friday, June 7, 2013 - 00:00
This interdiction was carried out as part of Operation Martillo, which is one component in the United States government's whole-of-government approach to countering the use of the Central American littorals as transshipment routes for illicit drugs, weapo
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 15:03
This week delegations from Latin American countries and the United States are gathering in Guatemala to debate drug policy and other regional issues at the Organization of American States' (OAS) 43rd annual General Assembly.
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 00:00
Colombian police said Wednesday that they seized 1.5 tons of high-quality cocaine that the Los Rastrojos criminal organization was planning to ship to Guatemala
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 00:00
Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Bernard C. Webber offloaded 2,200 pounds of cocaine, seized during Operation Martillo, worth an estimated value of $27 million at Base Miami Beach, Fla., April 26.
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 00:00
Leon Riano explico que desde esta finca "Los Urabenos" exportaban la droga en lanchas rapidas hacia Centroamerica, donde era recibida por los carteles mexicanos, especialmente Los Zetas
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 00:00
Por tercera vez en menos de quince dias, las autoridades antinarcoticos dominicanas decomisaron un alijo superior a los 500 kilogramos de cocaina colombiana
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 00:00
Informes oficiales indican que los centros donde se procesaba la droga se localizaron en tres predios rusticos de 450 metros cuadrados en el municipio de Nochistlan
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 00:00
"A good 80 percent of the seizures involving narcotics here in the passenger environment, passenger vehicles, deal mostly with methamphetamine"