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Farm boys from a tiny county that once depended on sugar cane have perfected an ingenious business model for selling a semi-processed form of Mexican heroin known as black tar. (LA Times) MORE: Black tar moves in, and death follows Good life in Xalisco can mean death in the US
TEGUCIGALPA -- The head of the Honduran drug enforcement agency was killed by two gunmen who opened fire on him from a motorcycle in Tegucigalpa, police said. (LAHT)
SAN JOSE – Costa Rica has gone from being a bridge for drug trafficking between South and North America to becoming established as a warehouse and trading center for drug cartels, from which the authorities have seized 92.7 tons of cocaine and $17M in the last 3½ years. (LAHT)
Venezuela 'supplies half of Britain's cocaine' CARACAS - President Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela has become the key trafficking route for most of the cocaine sold on Britain's streets, anti-drugs officials believe. (Telegraph UK)
US deports 'minister for cocaine' MIAMI - Luis Arce-Gomez, interior minister in the Andean nation's 1980-81 dictatorship, made an infamous warning to foes to "walk around with their wills under their arms". The United States has deported the 71-year-old to face justice in Bolivia after he spent almost 20 years in a Florida prison for drug trafficking. (Guardian UK) PREVIOUS: Bolivia halts US anti-drugs work Evo Morales Morales bars 'spying' DEA agents
North Van man faces drug charges VANCOUVER - Pavel Kulisek, 43, was arrested March 11 in Los Barilles and held in a detention centre in Mexico City. The friend, who called himself Carlos Harrera, is actually Gustavo Rivera Martinez - one of the US Marshals Service and FBI's most wanted men and kingpin of the Tijuana cartel. When police swooped in on him having dinner in March, Kulisek was there and was also arrested. (North Shore News)
MONTREAL - The RCMP says it has arrested four men who allegedly smuggled massive amounts of cocaine into Canada in the last decade. Three men were picked up in morning raids Tuesday in the Montreal area while the fourth is already in jail on other charges, RCMP said. (CTV) |
WINNIPEG - David Sokalski, 39, admits he was a key player in a cross-border conspiracy that saw barrels of raw ephedrine smuggled into the US to methamphetamine labs run by the Mexican Mafia. (Winnipeg Free Press)
RIO DE JANEIRO - Six additional people were found dead on Friday, bringing to 39 the death toll from week-long clashes involving Brazilian police and the drug-dealing gangs who control many of Rio de Janeiro’s teeming slums. (LAHT) PREVIOUS: Violence mars reputation Gangs shoot down copter Gangs go to war Traffickers shoot down police helicopter Olympic Games 2016
The crews of the Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter Midgett and a Navy maritime patrol plane teamed up to catch a drug-running submarine carrying 7 tons of cocaine worth about $196 million. (Seattle PI) MORE: US military nets second sub in a week
MONTREAL - Colombia's witness-protection agency has warned a former paramilitary turned state witness that two assassins posing as tourists plan to travel to his new home in Canada to kill him. (National Post)
MEXICO CITY - Zhenli Ye Gon's lawyers, who are fighting efforts to extradite him to Mexico from the US, vehemently deny their client admitted anything illegal and call the report misinformation intended to sway public opinion against him. (AP) PREVIOUS: Mexico to spend 'drugs cash haul' Alleged drug trafficker nabbed in US Mexican police find $206M in drug raid
Cali cartel leaders plead guilty MIAMI - Two Colombian brothers who helped found the infamous Cali cartel pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug trafficking, forfeited billions in tainted assets, and received what could amount to a life sentence. Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, ages 67 and 63, each were sentenced to 30 years in prison. (AP) PREVIOUS: Cali cartel Gilberto & Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela
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Motive in 'dead presidents' killing SAN BERNARDINO - Deputy District Attorney Cheryl Kersey said gang leader Johnny Agudo and his subordinates were ambushed on July 9, 2000, because Agudo had "ratted" on Salvador Orozco Hernandez, identified in 2006 as a drug-trade controller in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration documents. (Press Enterprise) |
How Canucks blew a deal on blow It looked to James Frost like a big payday was coming. The plan was simple. Buy cocaine from Colombian drug lords. Smuggle it into Canada on a yacht. And it could all be directed, with the help of partners, from the GTA. But almost from the start the plan hit snags, and 78 RCMP wiretaps, entered in court, tell the tale. (Toronto Star) |
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PORTO ALEGRE - Hundreds of protesters from Brazil's landless movement have invaded a farm owned by an alleged Colombian drug lord hours before it was to be auctioned. Police say 300 families took over the property owned by Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia in Rio Grande do Sul state. (BBC) Kingpin caught with his pants down Brazil holds Colombia ‘drug lord’
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Resurgence of paramilitary politics Crackdown appears to be working Druglords launder euros via Miami Gun battles in Rio leave 19 dead Brazil breaks up 'killing firm' Brazil arrests 75 Rio cops for organized crime ties |
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HIDALGO - The mayor of a town in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas has been shot dead - the second to die in the region in the past two weeks. (BBC) 10 arrested for Mayor's murder Under threat from cartels, reporters go silent Clash between gunmen & soldiers Local elections married by violence, intimidation President blames violence on cartel rivalry Party denies lawmakers have links to cartels 2 human rights activists slain |
Violence targets police, media 4 decapitated corpses hung from a bridge President urges nation to fight OC 12 bodies found on side of highway 3 bodies found hanging from bridge Enforcer targeted consulate employee Minister can't trust her own police |
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4,200 gallons of chemicals seized US public parks take over by cartels 'intensifying' |
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A good journalist is a dead journalist Soldier, 2 police chiefs, 7 civilians killed Mexico snares brutal drug trafficker |
Gang member admits involvement Border towns, worlds apart in drug war |
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Crime reporters face deadly perils In drug battle, the public is missing in action Tijuana's new weapon in gang war Euro new currency of cartels Euro Vicente Carrillo Fuentes' Juarez cartel. |
8 found dead in burned-out truck |
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Reprisal for killing drug lord Cartel chief is dead, but now what? |
Shootout shuts US-Mexico crossing |
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Cartels hire US teenage killers Police officers held in killings Cartel 'Taliban' declares war on Mexican state |
Cash in shipment now at $22.4M Police capture top deputy in Arellano cartel Army replaces customs officers Cartels go from drugs to full-scale mafias Fugitive politician tied to gang Mexico rules out 'peace' deal with cartels Drug offensive stirs 'wasp nest' |
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Lethal connections: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Drug violence spilling into Guatemala |
Detention of local officials marks shift Stakes rise as drug war threatens to cross border Traffickers, assassins arrested |
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Drug lord Guzman #701(tied) on Forbes list Son arrested Ismael Zambada Garcia Federation cartel Juarez cartel |
Mexican collapse: 'what if?' scenario Arellano Felix Organization unmasked |
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CARACAS - The three Colombians, put aboard a DEA aircraft under strong police guard, were identified as Carlos Renteria, Luis Tello and Carlos Ojeda. (LAHT) |
'Top guns' of Tumaco keep crops in check Leader accepts responsibility for massacre |
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Edgar Guillermo Vallejo Guarin Colombia extradites militia head Police 'kill Colombian drug lord' |
Chavez role in cocaine trail to Europe Colombia's new urban drugs war Colombia seizes $54M drugs cash Where the drug lords are kings Madrid clashes over Latin gangs Mexican cartels settling into Peru Peru to bomb Amazon cocaine labs Alberto Santofimio Pablo Escobar
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GUATEMALA CITY - The Guatemalan military intercepted a semi-submersible carrying 5 tons of cocaine and captured 4 Colombian nationals, a defense ministry spokesman said. (LAHT) |
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SAN SALVADOR - Ten reputed members of the Mara 18 gang were arrested in connection with the September murder of Franco-Spanish photojournalist Christian Poveda. The 54-year-old journalist directed the documentary “La Vida Loca” (Crazy Life), depicting the daily lives of a group of gang members in the Salvadoran town of Soyapango. (LAHT) |
SAN SALVADOR - In the first three months of 2009, by official government count, an average of nearly 12 people a day were slain. The homicide rate is roughly five times that of Mexico and 10 times that of the US. (LA Times) |
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Indictment details gang's workings LOS ANGELES - When a stray bullet from a gang member's gun struck 3-week-old Luis Angel Garcia in the heart and killed him in 2007, police, politicians and ordinary Angelenos expressed outrage over the infant's death. But they weren't the only ones. Members of the Mexican Mafia demanded that those responsible be killed. (Los Angeles Times) |
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Violent Hispanic gang sets up in city VANCOUVER - A violent California-based Hispanic gang is setting up drug houses in Vancouver, using newly arrived refugees to do the gang's dirty work. (The Province) The most dangerous gang in America |
Two decades ago, gangs were rare in Central America. But in the mid-1990s, the United States stepped up deportations of criminals; many of them gang members from the 18th street, or Mara 18, and its chief rival, Mara Salvatrucha 13. Today, gangs are Central America's No. 1 crime problem. (Sign On) Nine held over Honduras massacre |
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