Narco Trafficking

Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Drug War, Latino Politics, Narco Trafficking, Mexico Drug Violence, Ciudad Juarez, Latino Voices News

While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest...

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WATCH: 'Angels' May Be Cause For Drop In Violent Crime

Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Ciudad Juarez Angels, Video, Mexico Drug War, Ciudad-Juarez-Murder-Capital, Mexico Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Juarez, Narco-Trafficking, Latino Voices News

Christian youth are standing up to the drug trafficking violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city -- where 5,000 people were murdered in t...

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Mexican Cartel Kingpin Pleads Guilty In US Court

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Video, Benjamin Arrellano Felix, Money Laundering, Arellano-Felix-Cartel, Narco-Trafficking, Narcos, Racketeering, Drug Smuggling, Latino Voices News

SAN DIEGO — Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering and conspiracy to launder money, avoiding the ...

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The Pentagon's $3 Billion Drug War Auction

Aurelia Fierros | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Drug Cartels, Drug War, War on Drugs, Latino Politics, Narco-Trafficking, Video, Latino Voices News

Is the U.S. enforcing the right drug policy? Is Mexico congruent with pushing the drug war to the limit, being aware that a gigantic consumers' market is at the front door?

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Let's Stop "Conflict Drugs" in Central America

Eric Farnsworth | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: El Salvador, Blood Diamonds, Guatemala Violence, Mexico Drug War, Narco-Terrorism, Central America, Illegal Drugs, Narco-Trafficking, Politics News

Violence has spiked and people are dying gruesome, preventable deaths in Central America, Mexico, and elsewhere as a result of U.S. consumer tastes. Blood diamonds? No, conflict drugs.

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'Zeta Killers' Vigilantes Vow To Kill Mexican Drug Runners

The Huffington Post/AP | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Video, Mexico Drug War, Drug Violence, Narco-Trafficking, Veracruz Drug Murders, Zetas Drug Cartel, New Generation Drug Cartel, Zeta Killers, World News

A Mexican vigilante group with links to a drug cartel has vowed to "eliminate" members of the country's leading narco-trafficking gang. A video p...

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War Without End: U.S. Pledges More Foreign Aid To Fight Drug Cartels

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Drug Cartels, War on Drugs, Narcotics, Central America, Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Cartels, Narco-Trafficking, World News

GUATEMALA CITY — The Obama administration pledged Wednesday to increase its investment in Central Americas security to nearly $300 million this ...

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Mexico Battles New 'Drug Language' To Describe Horrifying Violence

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Mexico Drug Language, Mexican Drug War, Mexico Drug Violence, Narco-Trafficking, Mexico Drug War, Mexico, World News

MEXICO CITY — There are a half dozen words for drug cartel informants, and double that for drug war dead. "Narco" has become a general prefix. T...

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Mexican Standoff

Dan Rather | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Marijuana, Drug Cartel, Narco-Trafficking, Mexico, Felipe Calderón, Drug War, Vicente Fox, Sinaloa Cartel, Marijuana Legalization, World News

According to former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda, legalizing "drugs in general, and marijuana in particular" would significantly diminish the bloodshed plaguing Mexico.

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Are You High? California's Pot Proposition Won't Stop Mexican Narco War

Adam Yamaguchi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico, Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, Pot, Proposition 19, California, Marijuana, Narco-Trafficking, Prop 19, Politics News

Adam Yamaguchi is executive producer and correspondent for Vanguard. Here in California, as we approach election day, chatter about marijuana legaliza...

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Mexico's Narcos: A Crisis for Both Mexico and the U.S.

Gary Orfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Drug War, Terrorism, Civil Rights, Narco-Trafficking, Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Mexico City, Walter Mondale, Immigration, US-Mexico Border, Politics News

We're doing nothing effective to stop the flood of narcotics that aim to meet the appetites of U.S. addicts, or to stem the tide of guns from hundreds of virtually unregulated shops on the U.S. side of the border.

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Undermining Aid: How the U.S. Financial System Facilitates Overseas Corruption

Robert B. Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011

When governments around the world are taking measures in support of fiscal austerity, foreign assistance is always a prime target for the chopping blo...

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Cannes Film Festival: The Two Escobars

Linda Hassler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andres Escobar, Drug Cartels, Tribeca Film Festival, Leslie Hassler, Espn, The Two Escobars, Colombian Cocaine, Pablo Escobar, Michael Zimbalist, Narco-Trafficking, Favela Rising, Colombia, 30for30, Cannes Film Festival, Jeff Zimbalist, New York News

Only rarely can a documentary match feature films for gripping human drama, but this one, The Two Escobars, has more than done that.

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Christmas, Drug Wars and Juarez

Jeff Antebi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, El Paso, Narco-Trafficking, Narcos, Mexico, Afghanistan, Narcotics, Juárez, World News

When I mentioned I was going to spend Christmas photographing Juárez -- where upwards of 4,000 people have been murdered in the last two years -- people reacted as if I was planning a trip to Somalia. They were not that far off.

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Vice TV: Revolutionary, Bold Pop Culture Explorations

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Live Internet Chat, Firedoglake, Narcosubs, Vice TV, Narco-Trafficking, Santiago Stelley, Media News

The media website explores the strange, the controversial and the timely in exciting often edgy long and short form documentaries, covering stories that mainstream media just can't or won't do.

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Pain, Drugs, Laws and Compassion

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pain, Narcotics, Pain Medications, Legalize Marijuana, Legalization, Narco-Trafficking, Healthy Living News

The cost of America's war on drugs goes beyond mere economic dimensions. But there's a drug war casualty that gets less play -- the stigma attached to those who legally use narcotic analgesics: people in pain.

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International Narcotics Control Board Reaffirms its Shameful Commitment to Politics over Science

Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, Latin American Commission on Drugs, Drug Policy Alliance, International Narcotics Control Board, Drug War, Ethan Nadelmann, United Nations, Drug Prohibition, Drug Trade, Drug Trafficking, Drug Reform, Narco-Trafficking, Incb, Politics News

The INCB boldly reaffirmed its shameful commitment to politics over science as well as its shocking indifference to the failures and harmful consequences of the global drug prohibition regime.

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Former Colombia Foreign Minister Argues For An Extension Of Tough U.S. Drug Plan And Free Trade, Supports McCain

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Congress, Colombia FARC, Venezuela, Pablo Escobar, Sarah Palin Vice President, War on Drugs, Wall Street Journal, Killing Pablo, Offthebus, Plan Colombia, Trade Deficit, Colombia Free Trade, Alvaro Uribe, Farc, Para-Military Groups, Bill Clinton, Hugo Chavez, John McCain, Democratic Congress, John Bussey, Pablo Escobar Films, Terrorism, Free Trade, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Manufacturing Jobs, Barack Obama 2008, Outsourcing, Outsourcing to India, Labor Unions, Colombia, Sarah Palin, Narco-Trafficking, Fernando Araujo, Unions, Cocaine, Tu-160, Home News

I think Senator McCain will probably win in November because what North Americans value most is security, stability and experience, and that is McCain.

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