A leader of one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in Honduras turned himself in last week at the United States Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Insight Crime reports.
Since the disappearance of 43 Mexican students from a teachers college in September, a discussion has emerged on the beneficiaries of the war on drugs.
Peruvian authorities seize record amount of cocaine - six tons- hidden in coal shipment Peruvian authorities seized a record of more than six tons of cocaine from a Mexican cartel Tuesday, according to Bio Bio Chile.
Venezuela may have threatened the Netherlands to allow the release of Hugo Carvajal, who was arrested Thursday on the Dutch island of Aruba on a U.S. warrant for ties to drug trafficking.
Honduran President said that the issue is a humanitarian crisis and sprouted from the fight against drugs in the US, despite the fact that the US is the biggest consumer of drugs. And while the US only has to fight the public health and safety aspect, the backstage fight is the one affecting Central America and encouraging the migration.
Mexican authorities busted a high ranking Gulf drug cartel kingpin on Sunday. Mexican authorities busted a high-ranking Gulf drug cartel kingpin on Sunday.
Peru may have bypassed Colombia as the biggest producer of coca (a South American plant used to make cocaine) with over 128,000 tons produced in the country last year, but that doesn't mean the country won't give up the fight against narco-trafficking.
These Colombian prisoners may have thought that their time for judgment was over the moment that they left the court room, but as it turns out, they were in for a whole different type of judgment in prison, as contestants in the increasingly popular "Reina Madre" prison beauty pageant.
