El Jardinero” captured in Mexico, attacks by FARC dissidents in Colombia, and the intensification of US anti-drug airstrikes.

A staggering system of criminal governance between the governor of Mexico's Sinaloa state and the Chapitos faction of the ...

The capture of Audias Flores Silva, alias “El Jardinero,” reflects how Mexico’s strategy of targeting drug kingpins continues ...

As the United States drags the drug war back in time, traffickers are leaping forward, creating new ways of disguising and ...

Amid record production levels, the cocaine business is entering a new age, driven by diversifying markets, global networks, ...

US prosecutors have outlined a staggering system of criminal governance in an explosive indictment against the sitting governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state for alleged links to the… In July 2024, ...

Rosalinda González Valencia, alias "La Jefa," was involved in illicit activities long before meeting her husband, alias "El Mencho," and managed to establish herself as a key financial operator for ...

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In March 2019, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro created a new wing of the Bolivarian Revolution political movement, the Peace Defender Squads (Cuadrillas Defensoras de la Paz). The squads, known by ...

In 2013, Nicolás Maduro became president of Venezuela following the death of his charismatic predecessor Hugo Chávez. Since then, the country’s cocaine trade has undergone revolutionary changes. Today ...