Witnesses at a trial in New York describe how drug money buys protection at the highest level of Honduran politics.
Tag: Drug Abuse and Traffic
Mexico’s President Defends Government Response to Drug Cartel Mayhem
The government of Sinaloa State warned residents to stay off the streets and be on high alert after the attempted arrest of the son of the infamous drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera.
The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring
Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source — until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.
U.S. Disputes Finding That Airstrikes on Afghan Drug Labs Killed 30 Civilians
The American military said the facilities were funding the Taliban. But a United Nations report argued that those working in the labs were not “performing combat functions.”
Opium-Smuggling Taliban Leader’s Release From Prison Raises Questions
Among the 11 Taliban prisoners freed, in what some reported was a swap for Indian hostages, was a U.S.-designated terrorist figure who had been caught with a haul of opium.
Police Rescued by Drug Suspects They Were Chasing After Collision at Sea
When three Spanish police officers fell into the ocean in the middle of a high-speed pursuit, the people they were chasing — suspected of trafficking drugs — were asked to pick them up.
$1 Million Bribe Offered by El Chapo to President? Hondurans Are More Resigned Than Shocked
U.S. prosecutors say President Juan Orlando Hernández is complicit in his brother’s drug trafficking. Many Hondurans have given up hope their country can address its chronic corruption and violence.
Looming Presence in Drug Conspiracy Case: Honduras’s President
President Juan Orlando Hernández, who won’t be at his brother’s U.S. trial, has been accused of using trafficking to “help assert power and control in Honduras.”
Spanish Court Calls U.S. Extradition Request Politically Motivated
A Spanish court said that the United States’ request was politically motivated, and that drug trafficking charges leveled against the former intelligence chief lacked sufficient detail.
Iraq Faces a New Adversary: Crystal Meth
Growing addiction is the most recent manifestation of how Iraq’s social order has frayed in the years following the 2003 U.S. invasion.