America's Growing Role In The war Against The Drug Cartels

Source: NPR, STRATFOR . Credit: Stephanie d'Otreppe/NPR How the U.S. Fights The Zeta Cartel, From Spies To Sanctions -- Danger Room The...

America's Growing Involvement In Central America's Drug Wars

Image: NPR Marines vs. Zetas: U.S. Hunts Drug Cartels in Guatemala -- Danger Room The war on drugs just got a whole lot more warlike. Two hu...

Former Top MI6 Officer: Global War On Drugs A Failure

Former Top MI6 Officer Attacks Global War On Drugs -- The Guardian • Prohibition promotes insecurity and crime • Poor states pay the price f...

U.S. Successful In Intercepting 1 Of 3 Smugglers

The Air Force's MC-12 Liberty surveillance plane, in heavy use in Afghanistan, is one of the scarce assets Southern Command chief Gen. D...

Central America Drug Threat Growing

Central America Drug Gang Violence At 'Alarming Levels' -- BBC Drug-related violence is at "alarming" levels in Central Am...

Momentum Gaining For Legalizing Drugs In Latin America

The submarine, which had 10 tonnes of cocaine on board, was arrested by the coast guard some 280 km off Guatemala's Pacific coast. Photo...

Is Central America Is About To Give Up OnThe "War On Drugs"?

Leader Considers Drugs Legalization -- Press Association Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina said he will propose legalising drugs in Cen...

World Drug Facts: 284 mln Drug Addicts Spending $320 Bln On Drugs Each Year

About 53 mln people regularly use amphetamines, 22 mln are addicted to opium and its derivatives, and 19 mln – to cocaine, the official said...

A Look At The Drug Runners' Jungle-Built, Kevlar-Coated Supersubs

Photo: Christoph Morlinghaus Authorities in Awe of Drug Runners' Jungle-Built, Kevlar-Coated Supersubs -- Wired Science The clatter of h...

Submarines Becoming The Boat Of Choice For Colombian Cocaine Smugglers

Photo : Drug traffickers have been using submarines like this one, which the Colombian navy found in February. Luca Zanetti The Cocaine Wars...

Guatemala Is Now At War Against Mexico's Drug Cartels

Mexican Drug Cartels Draws Guatemalan Army To Jungles Where It Fought Civil War -- Washington Post IN COBAN, GUATEMALA The once-fearsome Gua...

In The Drug War, Drugs Are Winning

In The Drug War, Drugs Are Winning -- Reason.com The case for legalizing marijuana. When someone next door is coping with trouble, the neigh...

Anti-Narcotics Drive Fuelled Drug Cartels: U.N.

Suspected members of a crime gang accused of extorting, kidnapping and drug trafficking are shown to the press in Mexico City, Eduardo Verdu...

Cocaine Production Surge Unleashes Wave Of Violence In Latin America

From The Guardian: Cocaine production has surged across Latin America and unleashed a wave of violence, population displacements and corrupt...

Guinea-Bissau Violence Is Impacting Its Neighbours

GUINEA-BISSAU-SENEGAL: Assassinations Breed Uncertainty In Neighbouring Casamance -- IRIN News DAKAR, 5 March 2009 (IRIN) - The recent assas...

Three More Brigades To Go After Heroin Trade In Afghanistan

A Canadian soldier walks through a poppy field in Afghanistan. The crop is one of the chief sources of cash for the Taliban insurgency. Pete...

U.S. War On Drugs Has Failed, Report Says

Handout photo released by the El Debate de Sinaloa shows State policemen inspecting the area outside the prison in Culiacan where two police...

CIA Coverup Followed Another Spy Flight Mystery in Colombia

From CQ Politics/Spy Talk: Revelations that the CIA misled Congress and the Justice Department about the 2001 downing of a Peruvian plane ca...

Danger Room Debrief: Gang Threat Could Top Al Qaeda, Mr. President-Elect

From The Danger Room: This is the second of our Danger Room Debriefs, where we ask some of the smartest folks in the military, intelligence,...

Colombia's Drug Wars Continue

Laborers uproot a 6-foot-tall coca bush near the town of Nechi. Their mission is dangerous. This year, in this region alone, one police guar...