Opium production is expected to rise 61 per cent this year in Afghanistan and the value of the crop will more than double, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. The US-imposed drug enforcement and opium eradication programs have always had detrimental...
As of early August, 650 people had been killed in Acapulco, Mexico in 2011, making it one of the the bloodiest cities in Mexico, due primarily to the drug war. As a key passageway for South American cocaine, the city has long attracted drug gangs, with agents of...
Hundreds of Mexican soldiers and federal agents have raided casinos in the city of Monterrey, days after an arson attack on a gambling house killed 52 people in a country in which massacres and beheadings at the hands of drugs gangs are all too common. Five suspected...
Gunmen burst into a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, Thursday night, spraying the carpets with gasoline and setting it on fire. 53 were killed and the death toll is expect to rise. Drug cartels in Mexico's violence-plagued north often threaten business owners for...
US Hires Blackwater Subsidiary for Afghan Drug War | Years of infamy don’t keep Xe out of contracting
The Kaibiles, the ruthless U.S.-trained Guatemalan state militia infamous for their role in killing civilians during Guatemala's civil war, are being recruited in large numbers to violent Mexican drug gangs. Mexico's Zetas drug cartel is paying large sums to a...
