Home
RSS
Dozens of the U.S. diplomatic cables obtained and published by WikiLeaks cover a worldwide phenomenon that has been persistently troubling to the United States: drug trafficking. And those cables come not just from Mexico City, but from many corners of...
Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
12
Star It 
(4)
n 2006, an image made headlines showing a man sewn into a car seat in an attempt to illegally cross the Mexican/U.S. border. Now U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)...
made popular Aug 6 2010
Back in 1970, President Richard Nixon was having a lot of trouble trying to get something (anything!) accomplished in Vietnam. So he decided to wage a war that he...
made popular Jun 14 2010
The FBI will take part in the investigation into three people linked to the US Consulate being killed last weekend in this border city near El Paso, Texas, Mexican...
made popular Mar 16 2010
Drug enforcement agents on Sunday arrested five people, including two wanted for extradition by the United States, suspected of trafficking cocaine and heroin during an...
made popular Jan 25 2010
The country’s drugs cartels, which control most of the cocaine and methamphetamine smuggled into the United States, are estimated to have brought $25-$40 billion...
made popular Jan 25 2010
At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them...
made popular Dec 18 2009
Egypt has begun building a steel wall sunk 30 meters into the ground along the Egyptian-Gaza Strip border to combat the smuggling tunnels. Will pro-Arabists condemn...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Dusty sacks filled with cans of Coca-Cola were being loaded onto trucks by young boys, headed for supermarkets in Gaza City. Thousands of motorcycles were lined up on...
made popular Oct 26 2009
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...
made popular Oct 24 2009
A surge in drug-related violence the last 24 hours has seen at least 40 people killed in the troubled northern border region and President Felipe Calderon’s home...
made popular Sep 3 2009
As illegal immigrants flooded north through the sun-baked Mexican border town of El Sasabe to find work in the United States earlier this decade, shop keeper Ramona...
made popular Aug 28 2009
The investigations have given a new revelation of relation between Nepal’s ex-prince Paras with Underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim on the fake currency smuggling....
made popular Sep 2 2009
The murders of two courageous Sicilian judges in 1992 shocked Italy to the core, scandalised Europe, and forced the Italian state to take the Mafia threat seriously for...
made popular May 23 2009
Women. You can’t live with them and you sure the hell can’t live without them, but just a little friendly advice: When crossing the border from Mexico into...
made popular Mar 17 2009
Every month, one billion rupees worth of fake Indian currency is smuggled via Kathmandu airport to Birganj and across into India.
made popular Nov 3 2008
Police in the north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya say they have arrested five people on charges of smuggling uranium ore.
Only one packet of unprocessed uranium was...
made popular Sep 14 2008
I have said it before that the illegal border trades and the involvement of the border security forces in the smuggling are the key causes for the India-Bangladesh...
made popular Jul 21 2008
Smuggling of the IMFL from Chandigarh had seen an upsurge during the past few months because of demand from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and some parts of Uttar...
made popular Jul 14 2008
Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry insisted Saturday that its nuclear proliferation case was closed, a day after the disgraced architect of its atomic program claimed...
made popular Jul 6 2008
Images
© Copyright 2009 Instablogs. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Powered by InstaPress