After more than four decades of a failed war on drugs, calls for a change in strategy are growing louder by the day. In Latin America, the debate is positively deafening.
Let's assume we're talking about a total of 34,500 police officers and military personnel. If we assume that they're receiving an average monthly wage of US $350, then the Honduran government has to come up with slightly over US $12 million a month to pay these people.
Good drug policy is good AIDS policy. Drug users and sex workers benefit more from services than from beatings and prison. And as law enforcement officials committed to protecting the public, we can support public health.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have seized more than $3 million in cash and arrested seven s...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A former director of the Dominican Republic's National Drug Control Agency has been extradited to the U.S. t...
NEW YORK -- A former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international cocaine tra...
More than 100 people were arrested this week for their alleged involvement in large-scale heroin and cocaine trafficking from Puerto Rico and the Domi...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A top U.S. State Department official says the Caribbean will likely see a surge in drug trafficking activity by 2015 as opera...
Of all the horrors associated with a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Mexicans, the country's children and adolescents are perhaps the greatest casualty.
MEXICO CITY — An official count shows at least 26,121 people were reported missing during the term of President Felipe Calderon, who launched th...
The Dominican Republic continues to be the main command center for drug trafficking in the Caribbean region, with an increase in the past two years of...
BALI, Indonesia -- An Indonesian court sentenced a British grandmother to death on Tuesday for smuggling cocaine worth $2.5 million in her suitcase on...
Paul Chabot, who served as a White House drug adviser to Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, told HuffPost Live on Friday that he lacked faith...
BUSTED! A woman flying from Colombia to Barcelona was caught this week at a Spanish airport with bags of cocaine implanted in her breasts. Spani...
In Texas, we pay welfare moms with three kids $260 a month. In other words, our welfare moms don't have enough money to buy drugs or enough time to take them. But don't worry, Rick Perry has a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.
SAN DIEGO -- A man identified by prosecutors as an operative for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel was charged with building two major cross-border drug tu...
Notorious drug trafficker Griselda Blanco, who brought the idea of assassination-by-motorcycle to Miami in the '70s and '80s, was assassinated by men ...
Griselda Blanco, the drug kingpin known for her blood-soaked style of street vengeance during Miami's "cocaine cowboys" era of the '70s and '80s, was ...
By Isabella Cota MANUEL ANTONIO, Costa Rica, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The lush national parks of Costa Rica have long attracted tourists fro...
In war-plagued Mexico, protesting against the prohibition-fueled violence carries the gravest risks imaginable. Thankfully for Americans, the former poet has again decided to bring his determination for peace north of Mexico's border.
For three years, hundreds of expensive syringes loaded with life-saving cancer drugs disappeared unnoticed from the shelves at the University of Miami...
Bloomberg View: To grow up in South Florida during the 1970s and 1980s, as I did, wasn’t your typical American childhood experience. Back then th...
VIENNA, July 16 (Reuters) - Turnover of cross-border organised crime is about $870 billion a year, more than six times the total of off...
Drug money has a way of sprawling. And some of it may have reached Bank of America. A federal probe into Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel, claims t...
LEBANON, Ohio -- As he sat in the doctor's office, ex-boxer and weightlifter Gerald Dixon explained that years of sports had left him in pain, especia...
