Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 00:00
Mexican troops have made an historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco.
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 10:30
Here, we share our collection of maps, produced by the U.S. Southern Command's Joint Interagency Task Force-South, showing the trajectories of boats and planes suspected of trafficking drugs toward the United States from South America.
Image quality varies here: we take what we can get. The maps we have obtained over the years depict trafficking patterns in 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2011.
The first set of maps shows the tracks of boats believed to be carrying drugs or other illegal cargo. A few changes over the years are notable:
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 00:00
The Costa Rican Coast Guard, with assistance from the Drug Control Police (PCD) and air surveillance and intelligence from the United States Coast Guard, on Tuesday seized three boats carrying almost two tons of cocaine in the Golfo Dulce.
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 00:00
Las autoridades antidroga de Colombia intervinieron casi media tonelada de cocaina con el decomiso de tres alijos que eran transportados hacia zonas de frontera con Panama, Venezuela y Ecuador.
Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 12:44
Every year, at least until 2013, the Defense Department must report to Congress about how it uses its rather untransparent counter-narcotics budget to give aid to other countries' militaries and police. We endeavor to obtain those reports, and usually succeed (they are here.)
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 00:00
Segun fuentes policiales, el operativo antinarcoticos representa el primero de su magnitud en lo que va del 2012.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 00:00
Segun fuentes policiales, el operativo antinarcoticos representa el primero de su magnitud en lo que va del 2012.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 00:00
Marinos y autoridades mexicanas confiscaron en un puerto 32.6 toneladas de metilamina, una sustancia quimica utilizada en la fabricacion de drogas sinteticas.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 00:00
La droga era transportada en un camion y “se presume” que una parte tenia como destino la zona conurbada y otra para la costa atlantica
Monday, December 19, 2011 - 00:00
The Federal Police seized 13.7 tons of marijuana over the weekend hidden in two trucks near Brazil's border with Paraguay
