According to an independent tally RECENTLY RELEASED by the El Universal DAILY, An estimated 7,026 people have died in drug- related violence so far this year in Mexico....

The chief of Colombia’s secret police says a mob assaulted three of its agents as they tried to arrest a suspect with alleged guerrilla ties. DAS intelligence...

A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking. Moussa Conte and his three alleged associates deny importing...

Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record...

Mexico’s Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Jeffrey Max Jones, has resigned after causing a stir by announcing Mexican farmers could learn a thing or two from...

Brazilian police on Wednesday announced the capture of 648 kg of marijuana in the southern state of Parana.

Ciudad Juarez has had almost 2000 homicides — almost all brutal executions — through mid-October this year, up from 1,171 for the same period in 2008. There have...

Mexican authorities say they have seized a record 37 tons of chemicals used illegally to create methamphetamine drugs. The Attorney General’s office announced...

Tangled in the front line trenches of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s anti-narcotics campaign are the country’s growing legions of addicts, who find...

Thirty-one police officers have been arrested in a central Mexican state on suspicion of collaborating with a gang of drug cartel hit men. The Public Safety Department...

The seductive trappings of a bloody business that is consuming Mexico is stored in warehouses that dot the countryside. Hummers, ornate pistols, Rolexes and...

It was a heated debate during the Bush administration: What to do about evidence that Afghanistan’s powerful defense minister was involved in drug trafficking?...

Targeting Afghan drug lords as part of the war on terror is a strategy that can best be described as better late than never. This is because drug money, rooted in the...

Federal authorities announced the arrest of 34 police officers suspected of corruption, along with 17 drug traffickers, in two major anti-drug operations in Sinaloa and...

President Felipe Calderon says Mexico will start issuing nationwide identity cards for its citizens starting this year, and by 2012 everyone will have one. The cards...

Kenya AGO summit to promote exports Ten years since the African Growth Opportunity Act (Agoa) was established, Kenya has only taken advantage of about 12 out of 6,500...

Late yesterday, a Denver court sentenced Travis Henry to three years in federal prison for allegedly financing a drug trafficking operation that shipped cocaine from...

The Pope, Benedict XVI, in an audience with the new Mexican ambassador to the Holy See, Federico Ling Altamirano,has affirmed Mexico’s efforts in favor of life...

A massive army surge has failed to calm raging drug gang violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the U.S. border that is at the heart of President Felipe...

Today in Cancún, police were led to an abandoned Jeep with three dead men announcing a new group, the Mata Zetas, or the Killers of Zetas. The Zetas are the armed...