Europol smashes Balkan cartel shipping drugs from South America
Eight tonnes of cocaine seized and 40 people arrested after four-year investigation led by Spain’s Guardia Civil • How big is Europe’s cocaine problem –...
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Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report
Cocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America’s key habitats for threatened birds under threat, study finds Cocaine consumption is threatening rare tropical birds as...
Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade
Exclusive: Guardian investigation shows white powder trail linking hundreds of vulnerable African minors with ruthless gangs Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a...
US seizes $63m worth of cocaine after dramatic shootout on high seas
Patrol boat off Venezuelan coast shoots and sinks vessel suspected of carrying drugs as three people go overboard A high-seas shootout pitting drug runners against...
‘He paved a cocaine superhighway’: ex-Honduran president convicted in New York trafficking trial
Juan Orlando Hernández, 55, once a US ally in the ‘war on drugs’, found guilty on three counts and faces 40 years in prison The...
Ex-Honduran leader praised by Trump faces trial in US for running ‘narco-state’
Juan Orlando Hernández stands trial in a New York courtroom on Monday accused of taking millions in bribes from drug traffickers Five years after he...
Carriers sneak life-saving drugs over border as Mexico battles opioid deaths
People forced to bring overdose-reversal drug naloxone from US, as critics accuse Mexican government of creating shortage Every day, people cross the US-Mexico border with...
Cocaine, gangs and murder: Ecuador’s 10 days of terror – podcast
Just a few years ago it was one of the most peaceful countries in Latin America. But last week drug gangs stormed a live TV...
‘We are at war’: Ecuador’s president vows to crack down on gangs behind week of violence
After criminals storm TV station and take prison guards hostage, Daniel Noboa pledges to stop his country becoming a narco-state Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, has...
Ecuador ‘at war’ with drug gangs, says president as violence continues
Daniel Noboa designates nearly two dozen gangs as terrorist groups after wave of violence across country Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, said on Wednesday that his...
