Tag: drug cartels

• Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 18:59 UTC

  US hits another vessel near Venezuela, killing 4

  

  US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday that his country's forces carried out a lethal and kinetic attack ordered by President Donald Trump against a “drug trafficking vessel affiliated with designated terrorist organizations” near the coast of Venezuela.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  At least 118 dead in Ecuadorian prison riot involving Mexican drug cartels

  

  Ecuador's police was still fighting to control a jailhouse in Guayaquil after a riot by inmates led to clashes that have so far resulted in 118 deaths in what turned out to be one of Latin America's worst prison massacres.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 19:50 UTC

  Arrest of Mexican ex security minister by US officials shocks both countries

  

  Business ties between former U.S. officials and an ex-Mexican security minister charged with taking bribes from a drug cartel have raised questions about what U.S. law enforcement knew about him before his arrest this month.

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  US Justice Department concluded Honduras president was bribed by drug cartels

  

  Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez emerged battered from the trial and conviction of his brother last Friday after the US Justice Department concluded that the evidence showed narco-traffickers had bribed the president and his party.

• Saturday, October 19th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  Who runs the country? Drug cartels outshoot Mexican military who back down on presidential orders

  

  Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador struggled on Friday to explain his government's capitulation to organized crime after Mexican authorities buckled in the face of an armed campaign of terror and released drug kingpin Ovidio Guzmán López just hours after capturing him.