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Montevideo, January 22nd 2025 - 13:49 UTC

Tag: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    Paraguay: Peña backs official who cut ties with DEA and backtracked

    “We are in communication with Trump's transition team,” Peña stressed

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña insisted that Jalil Rachid should not resign as head of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) despite sending a note to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stopping all cooperation and then recanting after finding out an agreement dating back to 2022 was in force.

  • Tuesday, December 10th 2024 - 21:00 UTC

    Paraguay's antidrug agency parts ways with DEA

    “The results will be seen over time,” Abdo warned

    Paraguay's National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) decided to break off from its partnership with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), according to a note sent by Minister Jalil Rachid on Dec 6, which went public Tuesday in Asunción. Rachid said the move stemmed from the need to optimize resources and strengthen operational areas.

  • Wednesday, September 27th 2023 - 09:24 UTC

    Uruguayan Interior Minister wants DEA back

    “Do we want to fight drug trafficking or not?” Heber argued

    Uruguay's Interior Minister Luis Alberto Heber insisted Tuesday it would be a wise move to bring back the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to the South American country. Heber made those remarks days after the escape of many drug traffickers who had been granted house arrest.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 07:12 UTC

    Bullrich asks DEA to arrest Maduro in Buenos Aires

    “Human Rights have no ideology; and not because you are a left-wing dictator, can you not respect them,” Bullrich said

    Argentina's opposition leader Patricia Bullrich, chairwoman of the Propuesta Republicana (PRO) party, a majority partner in the Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) alliance Sunday filed a request before the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro once he lands in Buenos Aires for the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).

  • Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:31 UTC

    Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid painkiller poisoning US/China relations

    Fentanyl was first developed in 1959 and introduced to the US market in the 1960s as an intravenous anesthetic.

    President Donald Trump has repeatedly hit out at China for failing to curb the export of illegal fentanyl to the United States. The powerful painkiller is the primary synthetic opioid available in the US, a class of drug that was responsible for almost 32,000 overdose deaths last year.

  • Wednesday, January 13th 2016 - 07:46 UTC

    Venezuela's First Lady claims her two 'narco-nephews' were kidnapped by DEA

    Cilia Flores, who serves in congress, told Venezuelan weekly Tal Cual that the U.S. was seeking revenge and trying to force the socialists from power in Venezuela.

    Venezuela's first lady on Tuesday broke her silence on the arrest of her two nephews on drug trafficking charges, saying they were kidnapped by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.Cilia Flores, who serves in congress, told Venezuelan weekly Tal Cual that the U.S. was seeking revenge and trying to force the socialists from power in Venezuela.

  • Tuesday, November 24th 2015 - 11:29 UTC

    Venezuelan military involved in cocaine transport, claims New York Attorney Office

    According to US prosecutors the Cessna Citation with 800 kg of cocaine took off from a terminal reserved for government officials at Caracas airport

    The latest developments in the drug trafficking case with relatives of Venezuela’s first lady Cilia Flores indicate that the Venezuelan military is involved in transporting cocaine to Haiti for trans-shipment into the US.

  • Thursday, September 17th 2015 - 20:32 UTC

    Top Bolivian officials allegedly involved in drug trafficking, according to DEA claim

    Bolivian officials were secretly indicted on drug trafficking charges as part of a DEA operation run out of the office in Paraguay, reported The Huffington Post

    Secret United States indictments obtained by the media have implicated top Bolivian officials in drug trafficking, reigniting the highly charged debate over whether Bolivia is a victim of US political persecution or whether it is becoming a corrupt narco-state.

  • Monday, August 17th 2015 - 06:52 UTC

    Suriname leader Bouterse takes office for another five-year term

    “We no longer want to depend primarily on market decisions such as the gold price controlling the price of alumina and the price of oil,” said Bouterse

    Suriname former military ruler Desi Bouterse officially began a second consecutive five-year term in office after being sworn in, promising to diversify the country’s economy and make the country less dependent on bauxite, gold and oil exports.

  • Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 04:42 UTC

    US targets Venezuela's second strongest man for alleged cocaine trafficking

    “They accused me of being a drug-trafficker without any proof,” complained Diosdado Cabello, president of the National Assembly on state TV last week

    Despite persistent denials of any wrongdoing from Caracas, US authorities are currently investigating Venezuela’s powerful parliamentary chief, Diosdado Cabello, and other senior officials over alleged cocaine-trafficking and money-laundering, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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