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                • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
                  US opioid epidemic
                  US takes aim at fentanyl with sanctions on China-based network

                  Treasury’s move comes as Washington tries to combat flow of deadly opioid

                  Plastic bags of fentanyl
                • Friday, 22 September, 2023
                  News in-depthColombia
                  ‘Armed groups, coca crops and death’: how prices crashed for cocaine’s raw material

                  Oversupply in Colombia is attributed to the vertical integration of production and breaking of Farc’s monopoly

                  An armed police officer stands guard in a coca field in Tumaco, Colombia
                • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
                  Mexico
                  Mexico’s cartels luring hundreds of recruits every week, research finds

                  Report highlights size and ‘enormous power’ of crime groups that hold sway over areas of the country and economy

                  Sinaloa Cartel member holds a handgun with others in background in a safe house in Culiacan, Mexico
                • Monday, 11 September, 2023
                  Colombia’s coca production at all-time high, UN says

                  Rise in the main cocaine ingredient comes as the country’s government re-examines its approach to drugs

                  Police in a coca field in Colombia.
                • Friday, 1 September, 2023
                  News in-depth
                  Guns and grenades betray Antwerp’s struggles with rising cocaine trade

                  The Belgian port grew rich trading salt and sugar. ‘Now, we’re dealing with another white powder’, says city official

                  Customs officers inspect a container at Antwerp port
                • Friday, 18 August, 2023
                  News in-depthEcuador
                  Political violence in Ecuador damages socialists’ chances of regaining power

                  Voters look for tough pledges on security as blame game continues over assassination of centre-right candidate

                  Christian Zurita, second from left, who replaces slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavencencio, gives a press conference in Guayaquil, Ecuador
                • Friday, 18 August, 2023
                  Belgium’s drug trafficking ‘even bigger’ problem than terrorism

                  Justice minister calls for EU extradition agreements to help catch kingpins

                  Justice minister Vincent Van Quickenborne and Blankenberge mayor Bjorn Prasse during a police control on alcohol and drugs in Blankenberge
                • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
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                  Sanctions, global terror and the drugs trade

                  How geopolitics has blurred the lines between criminal enterprise and the state

                • Friday, 28 July, 2023
                  News in-depthVenezuela
                  Venezuelan spymaster ‘El Pollo’ accused of flooding US with cocaine

                  Hugo Carvajal is alleged to have been part of a state-backed cartel trafficking drugs into America for two decades

                  Hugo Carvajal
                • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
                  News in-depthMexico
                  How fentanyl changed the game for Mexico’s drug cartels

                  In less than a decade, traffickers have created a highly profitable business to feed US demand for the synthetic opioid

                  A member of the Sinaloa Cartel who identifies himself as Guero poses for a photo in a safe house in Culiacan, Mexico
                • Friday, 23 June, 2023
                  US brings first charges against Chinese entities over fentanyl ‘precursors’

                  Prosecutors say defendants helped supply chemicals fuelling deadly opioid crisis that has killed thousands

                  Merrick Garland speaks to media
                • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
                  Italy
                  Police arrest 150 in global crackdown on Italian mafia group

                  ’Ndrangheta suspected of laundering drug money through hotels, restaurants and ice cream shops

                  Police officers secure evidence during a raid in Mainz, Germany, on Wednesday
                • Friday, 14 April, 2023
                  US charges sons of ‘El Chapo’ in sweeping fentanyl cartel case

                  Prosecutors accuse ‘Chapitos’ along with defendants in China of building cross-border trafficking operation in deadly drug

                  Mexican security officials guard the building where Ovidio Guzman was held after being taken into custody in Mexico earlier this year
                • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
                  Mexico’s former security chief convicted in US of helping cartel smuggle drugs

                  President hails verdict after jury hears how Genaro García Luna helped Sinaloa clan become ‘FedEx of cocaine’

                  A courtroom sketch of Genaro García Luna
                • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
                  US foreign policy
                  US jury weighs fate of former Mexican official on trial for taking cartel bribes

                  Case has exposed the failures of the drug war waged by the US and Mexico

                  Genaro García Luna
                • Friday, 30 December, 2022
                  Irish cartel boss Daniel Kinahan runs out of options as legal noose tightens

                  Police chief confident that case against one of world’s most wanted drug lords will advance ‘significantly’ in 2023

                • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
                  Paraguay
                  US move deepens worries over organised crime in Paraguay

                  Sanctions on top politicians seen as message that Asunción must clean up public life

                  German police guard part of a $4.2bn cocaine haul seized in Hamburg that originated in Paraguay
                • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
                  Global InsightMichael Stott
                  Booming cocaine trade now stains most of Latin America

                  Drug violence reaches well beyond Mexico and Colombia into region’s quieter corners

                  A man holds coca paste, a crude extract of the coca leaf, in Catatumbo, Norte de Santander Department, Colombia
                • Saturday, 16 July, 2022
                  Mexico
                  Mexico captures drug lord wanted for murder of US agent in 1985

                  Arrest of Rafael Caro Quintero seen as sign of co-operation between security forces

                  Agents escort drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero after he was captured deep in the mountains of Sinaloa
                • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
                  Europe’s illegal drug market rebounds after Covid disruptions

                  Supply and use rise sharply as organised crime gangs exploit digital communications and transport networks

                  Police move drugs from a seized fishing boat in Gran Canaria, Spain in April
                • Friday, 6 May, 2022
                  News in-depthBritish Virgin Islands
                  British Virgin Islands politicians close ranks to resist London rule

                  National unity administration formed in tax haven as more details emerge of alleged drug trafficking

                  Disgraced premier Andrew Fahie, in court in Florida.
                • Friday, 29 April, 2022
                  News in-depthBritish Virgin Islands
                  UK report into BVI slams ‘appalling’ governance after premier arrested

                  British judge-led inquiry recommends suspension of elected administration and direct rule by London-appointed governor

                  Tortola, the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands.
                • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
                  British Virgin Islands
                  British Virgin Islands premier arrested on drug trafficking charges

                  Andrew Fahie detained at a Miami airport along with BVI ports director

                  Andrew Fahie, the premier of the British Virgin Islands
                • Monday, 28 February, 2022
                  The Big Read
                  How Brazil’s largest crime syndicate built a global drug empire

                  A prison gang 30 years ago, the PCC has risen to become one of the world’s most powerful organised crime groups

                • Friday, 18 February, 2022
                  News in-depthHonduras
                  Ex-Honduras president’s arrest puts US war on drugs into focus

                  Juan Orlando Hernández faces extradition despite being a long-time Washington ally

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