Mexican president blames US fentanyl crisis on ‘lack of hugs’ among families
Andrés Manuel López Obrador cites a lack ‘of hugs and embraces’ for 70,000 annual overdose deaths attributed to synthetic opioid Mexico’s president has said that...
Category : Drugs trade
Mexico’s former drugs tsar Genaro Garcia Luna convicted for aiding El Chapo cartel
Garcia Luna took millions in bribes from Sinaloa gang, Brooklyn corruption trial told A former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of the fight...
Ex-Mexico security chief’s trial poised to lift lid on US and Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’
Genaro García Luna, accused of accepting millions in bribes from cartels, in trial that could implicate officials on both sides of border One of Mexico’s...
Sinaloa cartel launches violent response as Mexico recaptures El Chapo’s son
Ovidio Guzmán’s arrest on Thursday prompted heavy fighting from cartel gunmen in the city of Culiacán Mexican authorities have captured Ovidio Guzmán, a son of...
Brother of top Mexican drug lord arrested in Jalisco state
Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, brother of cartel boss ‘El Mencho’, is third member of family to be arrested by Mexican authorities The brother of one of...
Colombia activist murders reach record high of 199 this year
Human rights ombudsman decries ‘alarming and unprecedented figure’ owing to attacked by illegal armed groups tied to drug trade Colombia will end the year with...
Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving 11 dead
Four radio station employees among dead as alleged gang members rampaged through Ciudad Juárez A prison confrontation between members of two rival cartels spilled on...
Ex-Honduran leader seeks to subpoena Biden, Trump and Obama in drugs case
Former president Juan Orlando Hernández’s also suggests he may seek testimony from Mexican drug lord El Chapo in New York trial Former Honduran president Juan...
Paraguay’s top prosecutor killed on honeymoon on Colombian beach
Shooting of Marcelo Pecci in front of his wife decried by Paraguayan president as ‘cowardly murder’ Paraguay’s prosecutor of organised crime and drug-trafficking cases, Marcelo...
‘It’s total terror’: Colombian cartel retaliates over kingpin’s arrest
Otoniel’s Gulf Clan militiamen shut down northern regions, blocking roads and holding residents hostage in their houses Jorge, a community activist from Colombia’s conflict-ridden Chocó...
