Mexico's Calderón comes to Washington
Region: District of Columbia
Although President-elect Obama's meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón is considered by some to be largely ceremonial, Calderón has a wish list of topics to bring up when he visits Obama in Was... more
Views: 1580Singapore Spares Drug Traffickers The Hangman
Region: SingaporeThree convicted drug traffickers have escaped the death penalty in a country where death is the mandatory sentence for smuggling 15g of heroin. This happened after prosecutors lessened the charges against them. The men - ... more
Views: 2435Drug Smugglers Go Underwater
Region: Colombia
As drug smuggling becomes more and more dicey, smugglers are becoming more and more resourceful. Smugglers for years have used fast boats on the water to get their illegal wares to customers. But now they've taken to trave... more
Views: 2453New Jersey Couple Ran $1M Coke Operation From Home
Region: United StatesAfter an investigation that went for about fourteen months, a New Jersey couple has been arrested. 35 year old Vincente Esteves, and his 30 year old wife, Chantal were arrested. They have been charged wit conspiracy and mo... more
Views: 2961Border Violence Erupts in Palomas
Region: New Mexico
Mexican drug trafficking violence is spilling over into the dusty border town of Palomas, a small town in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, which is about three miles south of Columbus, New Mexico. The latest violence occurred m... more
Views: 3453Mexican Catholic churches benefit from drug-related donations
Region: Mexico
In Mexico, the Catholic Church walks a fine line between two forces: narco-traffickers and the government. Although the Church does not readily concede that it benefits from narco donations, people are aware of th... more
Views: 2652Cartel leader nabbed by Mexican army
Region: Mexico
It is not reported exactly how, but Mexican soldiers caught drug cartel leader Adrian Rivera Garcia away from his considerable arsenal and arrested him and two associates in Tlapa de Comonfort, about 140 miles south of Mex... more
Views: 1995Top Mexican Crime Fighters Pass Information to Cartels
Region: Mexico
News of new arrests rocked even jaded Mexico crime watchers who expect corruption at every level: five officials of the Attorney General's Organized Crime unit admitted they accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars ... more
Views: 1337Exotic cats seized in Mexican drug traffickers' mansion
Region: Mexico
What do drug traffickers who are flush with money, do with all their loot? Some of them are creating their own private zoos. Mexico City police discovered one of these exotic animal collections in a recent raid at one of t... more
Views: 3021Mideast Terrorists Team Up With Drug Cartels
Region: Mexico
A US intelligence organization reports that Hamas, Hezbollah and other radical Islamic groups have joined forces with Mexican drug trafficking cartels. The Islamic groups furnish weapons and use the proceeds to finan... more
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