UK to send specialist assistance to Turks and Caicos after surge in fatal shootings
It is the second time in less than two years the Caribbean archipelago is seeing escalating violence, attributed to warring drug gangs The United Kingdom...
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‘This used to be a calm place’: killing continues in Ecuador’s week of chaos
As cartels and crime syndicates flock to Ecuador for cocaine trade profits, its murder rate has soared, with a TV station assault the crescendo of...
Drug lords hunt corrupt police officers who stole shipment in Tijuana
Two officers suspected of theft have been killed, prosecutors say, along with at least three others A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city...
US representative files resolution decrying rightwing calls for invasion of Mexico
Joaquin Castro urged fellow House members to reject Republican calls for US military action to stem flow of fentanyl from Mexico A progressive US congressman...
The new malaria vaccine will prevent many deaths – but it’s by no means the end of the disease
The new R21/Matrix-M vaccine will be far more easily available than the first vaccine – but the reality of life in Africa will blunt its...
Peruvian police seize 58kg of cocaine bearing pictures of Nazi flag
Drugs found in shipment said to be destined for Belgium also had the name Hitler printed on them Peruvian anti-drug police have seized 58 one-kilo...
Injectable HIV-prevention drug to be made in South Africa for the first time
Indian drug company to make cheaper generic version of CAB-LA, potentially protecting millions of people in Africa from the virus An affordable version of a...
US charges 28 members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel including El Chapo’s sons
Charges filed against cartel leaders, alleged chemical suppliers, lab managers, traffickers and others in fentanyl investigation The US justice department has charged 28 members of...
Mexican president bemoans ‘rude’ US fentanyl pressure in plea to Xi Jinping
Andrés Manuel López Obrador asks China to curb exports of opioid after lengthy denunciation of similar calls from US Mexico’s president has written to his...
Cocaine smuggling and production at record high since pandemic retreat
New UN report says there has been a 35% spike in 2020-21 in the production of coca, the drug’s base ingredient South American drug cartels...
