A day after President Trump informed Congress that the US is in a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, the US carried out yet another strike on a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean Sea, alleging it was loaded with drugs. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...
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The head of the UN drug watchdog agency is pressing US federal officials to challenge ballot measures in Colorado and Washington that decriminalized marijuana, in blatant disrespect for what the people voted for in those states. Raymond Yans, who heads...
A group of Latin American political leaders came together on Monday to acknowledge the legalization of marijuana in two US states and implied such moves could inform their own drug policies going forward. Leaders in Latin America have repeatedly voiced support for...
Ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington state legalized marijuana, while Massachusetts further decriminalized it, in decisions that could open the door for countries in Central America to defy the Obama administration and push through their own legalization...
A study released Wednesday by a respected Mexican think tank concludes that if current ballot measures in certain American states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana pass, it could cut the earnings of Mexican drug cartels by as much as 30 percent. The study...
Two US agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration shot and killed a man in Honduras last week who was suspected of drug smuggling, in the third instance since May of DEA involvement in the killing of suspects in the troubled Latin American country. The shooting...
The presumptive winner of Mexico's presidential election on Sunday, Enrique Peña Nieto, is not likely to make any substantive change away from the US-dominated, militaristic approach to the drug war, as many hoped. Central America has become the most dangerous place...
America's drug war in Honduras continues to expand and further militarize the conflict, as Washington's responsibility for a worsening human rights situation goes unaccounted for. The expanded mission, called Operation Anvil, is run with six US State Department attack...
