In an early Saturday raid at two prisons in the Mexican city of Morelia, the Michoacan Ministry of Public Security seized drugs, weapons, alcohol and a wide variety of household appliances including plasma screen televisions. At a press conference, the head of the agency said that items confiscated at Mil Cumbres prison included an M1 rifle with seven rounds of ammunition, a Colt [...]
The following is stated in the investigation made by the Norwegian Narcotics Governmental Committee which members, more than 100 consultative bodies, has made a public statement in late February. The picture that emerges is the following: 1) the drug situation in Norway is improving, 2) law enforcement efforts should be reinforced, 3) amicable measures for [...]
Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday began a tour of Latin America under intense pressure from business and political leaders to speak on a topic that no U.S. official wants to address: the decriminalization of drugs. The presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico, suffering the consequences of a failing drug war, [...]
A pitched gun battle was fought across the Rio Grande river this week between U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican drug traffickers, authorities announced on Friday. The U.S. Border Patrol said gunfire broke out on Wednesday when agents confronted a band of smugglers loading marijuana bales into two vehicles on the banks of the Rio [...]
The State of Texas on Thursday unveiled the second of six new ‘interceptor’ gunboats, similar to the Navy swift boats deployed on rivers during the Vietnam War, to patrol the US/Mexico border. The Texas Department of Public Safety announced the 34-foot shallow water craft would be deployed on the Rio Grande and the Intercoastal Waterway, [...]
A record seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in western Mexico indicates that nation could soon be the world leader in meth production. The scale of the capture announced Wednesday in Jalisco can only mean the Sinaloa cartel, a major international trafficker of cocaine and marijuana, has moved into wholesale meth manufacturing. According to [...]
For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. State Department has responded to increasing violent crime in Mexico by expanding the list of places that Americans should avoid for their own safety. An updated travel advisory released this week warned U.S. citizens to avoid non-essential travel to 14 states in northern and [...]
A fugitive Colombian paramilitary leader accused of dozens of crimes and drug trafficking has been captured in Venezuela according to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, in a fresh sign of cooperation from Caracas. The capture of Hector Buitrago Germain, alias “Martín Llanos”, and his brother Orlando Nelson, aka “Horse”, took place this weekend in the [...]
Police in northern Mexico have captured a suspected member of the Zetas drug cartel, who confessed to killing at least 75 people, authorities announced Monday. Enrique Elizondo Flores admitted to investigators that 36 of his victims were bus passengers traveling through the town of Cerralvo, near the Texas border, according to Nuevo Leon state security [...]
Mexican security forces killed a top aide to the country’s most wanted drug trafficker in a raid in a mountainous area of northern Mexico, defense officials said Monday. Luis Alberto Cabrera Sarabia, alias “The Architect,” was killed Friday during an air and ground operation in Canatlan, Durango state. The action began with a firefight at [...]
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