Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said that the nexus between terrorists and criminals has strengthened over the last decade. A Coast Guard cutter reportedly arrived in San Diego with more than 14 tonnes of cocaine, following 19 separate seizures. This included a 10.5 tonne seizure…
DetailsA kingpin of the Sinaloa drug cartel, ‘La Señora’, responsible for large supplies of cocaine, has been arrested in Cancun, Mexico. Peruvian anti-drug police have released details of how narco-traffickers move cocaine through the Amazon. Bolivia has fired seven state prosecutors following investigations following complaints of irregularities, including corruption. The Colombian Navy has reportedly seized…
DetailsA Colombian drug gang who smuggled an estimated £25million worth of cocaine into the UK inside plastic bananas has been jailed for a total of 59 years. The Costa Concordia, which sunk in January 2012, was allegedly carrying a cocaine shipment sent by the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, according to investigators. A plane has crashed in Venezuela,…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe Honduran National Police have arrested José Miguel ‘Chepe’ Handal Pérez, a former congressional candidate, businessman, and alleged drug trafficker. He had been on the run for two years. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has reportedly seized US$180 million worth of cocaine from Colombian drug traffickers, after five tonnes were found on a boat…
DetailsColombian security forces have reportedly killed a long-serving FARC commander with strong links to international drug shipments, Jose David Suarez, also known as ‘El Becerro‘. In Peru, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Minagri) has reportedly officially approved a programme to convert hundreds of hectares of coca fields into alternative crops in the VRAE region.…
DetailsMexican security forces have arrested Omar Trevino Morales, known as ‘Z-42’, the leader of the Zetas drug cartel. He is believed to have run the cartel since his brother was captured in 2013, and had a reward for his capture of US$2 million from the Mexican government, and US$5 million from the government. A retired…
DetailsJamaican lawmakers have passed an act to decriminalise small amounts of marijuana, and establish a licensing agency to regulate a medical cannabis industry. Colombian police have reportedly seized 3.3 tonnes of cocaine, close to the border with Panama. Police believe they were being transported to Mexico. The Pope has apologised to Mexico in regard to…
DetailsFormer US President Bill Clinton has apologised to Mexico, saying the US war on drugs has ‘backfired’, and has fuelled spiralling violence. Colombian police have reportedly discovered 3.5 tonnes of cocaine in the northern port town of Cartagena. US authorities have reportedly dismantled a ‘major drug trafficking network’, alleged to have shipped 130 kilograms of…
DetailsBenny Palmeri-Bacchi, a former Venezuelan judge, has been sentenced to over six years in prison for his role in ‘a major cocaine trafficking case’ that helped move Colombian cocaine through Venezuela, and was reportedly linked to the government of former president Hugo Chávez. In November he pleaded guilty to charges of extortion, conspiracy to obstruct…
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