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Montevideo, May 9th 2025 - 14:33 UTC

Tag: DEA

  • Thursday, December 19th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Paraguay backtracks on DEA cooperation breakup

    Cibar Benítez admitted that the 2022 agreement had been overlooked

    The Paraguayan Government of President Santiago Peña reversed its decision to stop all cooperation with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Wednesday, citing an agreement signed in 2022 during Mario Abdo Benítez's administration, of which nobody seemed to have been aware.

  • Thursday, April 4th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Uruguay and DEA sign new cooperation deal

    The deal provides for more coordinated joint operations, Martinelli explained

    The Government of Uruguay represented by Interior Minister Nicolás Martinelli and the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) signed a “memorandum of cooperation” in Washington DC Wednesday whereby the South American country will receive help fighting trafficking. Joining Martinelli's entourage was Anti-drug Brigade Director Alfredo Rodríguez.

  • Thursday, October 5th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    US Embassy in Montevideo: DEA will not return, but help is available

    Heber insisted last week on getting as much help as possible after the escape of drug traffickers under house arrest.

    Despite the interest of Interior Minister Luis Alberto Heber, the Embassy of the United States in Montevideo said Wednesday that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has no immediate plans to reopen its office on Uruguayan territory.

  • Friday, May 15th 2020 - 11:52 UTC

    Notorious Mexican drug leader extradited from Uruguay to United States

    A 2:45 a.m. Thursday, army and police units extracted Gonzalez Valencia from the Libertad prison and took him to the military area of the Carrasco airport.

    Uruguay on Thursday turned over to the United States a Mexican man wanted on drug and money laundering charges. Gerardo Gonzalez Valencia is the brother of Abigael González, the former head of the Sinaloa cartel faction known as “Los Cuinis” (The Squirrels). Gonzalez Valencia is also the brother-in-law of Jalisco cartel drug lord Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.

  • Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

    US offers US$ 10m reward for the head of the Jalisco New Generation cartel

    The reward for info leading to the arrest of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, is one of the highest offered by the U.S. State Department’s Narcotics

    The United States on Tuesday announced a US$ 10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a man accused of leading Mexico’s powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which the Justice Department considers to be one of the five most dangerous criminal organizations in the world.