- The US Department of State’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs has released its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.
- The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has released a report which states that the chemical that Colombia is spraying to eradicate coca plantations is probably carcinogenic.
- Vice has published a new documentary, entitled ‘The Birth of an Amazonian Cult: Cocaine and Faith in the Amazon’, focusing on coca production and its environmental impact on the Amazon rainforest.
- Vice has also published a report entitled ‘Lines in the Sand: Tracing Cocaine’s Path Through Africa to Europe’, examining cocaine trafficking routes.
- A London-based man has been jailed for 30 years, along with three other men, after police intercepted 40kg of cocaine reported to have a street value of around £11 million. The operation unveiled a drug smuggling network stretching from Mexico to the UK.
- Three alleged smugglers from the Dominican Republic have been arrested, after the US Coast Guard seized an amount of cocaine estimated to be worth US$16 million off the coast of Guayama in Puerto Rico.
- Six men are due to appear in court after 33kg of cocaine was reportedly discovered at a house in Caterham, UK.
- The US Department of Justice has released a report into alleged misconduct of officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in a country that the Washington Post confirmed to be Colombia.
- James Stavridis, a retired four-star US Navy Admiral, has called for the US to implement a ‘Plan Central America’, based on lessons learnt from ‘Plan Colombia’.
