After U.S. Drug Enforcement agents killed several innocent Honduran civilians in a botched raid earlier this month, some expected drug war efforts in Central America would relent. But American intervention has doubled down. That deadly raid was part of a growing...
People in Honduras have burned down government offices and demanded U.S. drug agents leave the area after news got out that American and Honduran forces shot and killed up to six innocent Hondurans. The dead included two pregnant women and two children. The Drug...
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents killed up to six innocent civilians and wounded several more in Honduras in a raid which took place at the end of last week. The dead included two pregnant women and two children. The DEA agents fired from helicopter...
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano defended Washington's failed war on drugs and vowed to continue to support brutal Latin American governments claiming to combat the producers and traffickers of narcotics. At a joint news conference with Mexican...
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has announced the Central American country will defy U.S. orders and decriminalize drugs to put an end to the U.S.-led drug war. "We are not doing what the United States says, we are doing what we have to do," said Perez, who...
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents laundered millions in cash for a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian cocaine supplier, according to documents made public Monday. With the help of Mexican federal police officers, the DEA agents and their...
The entire police force in Mexico's port city of Veracruz was dissolved on Wednesday, as the national army and navy took over security responsibilities. The disbanding of 800 police officers and 300 administrative employees is part of an effort to root out police...
Mexican soldiers exchanged gunfire with suspected drug cartel members just south of the Texas border on Saturday, ending in the death of 11 gunmen and one injured soldier. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the gunfight began when Mexican soldiers on patrol...
In order to fight Mexico's criminal drug cartels, Drug Enforcement Administration officials are themselves becoming criminals. Millions of dollars of drug proceeds have been laundered or smuggled by undercover American narcotics agents in an attempt to gain...
Mexico's over-reliance on harsh law enforcement and militaristic approaches to the drug war has resulted in a dramatic increase in violence and an unaccountable police and military force that is responsible for widespread human rights violations. Human Rights Watch...
