Tag: drugs

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  More clashes with drugs gunmen bring closer Trump's intention to designate the Mexican gangs as terrorists

  

  Clashes between police and suspected cartel gunmen in a northern Mexican town killed 21 people this weekend, authorities said, adding fuel to a debate sparked by US President Donald Trump, who has vowed to designate the gangs as terrorists.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Brazilian gang leader caught trying to escape from prison dressed as his teenage daughter

  

  A Brazilian gang leader tried to escape from prison by impersonating his teenage daughter, complete with a lifelike silicone mask and wig, before attempting to walk out the front door in her place after she visited him.

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

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

  

  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.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 11:06 UTC

  Largest cocaine bust in Germany, 4.500 kilos, was shipped from Montevideo

  

  German customs have confiscated a record 4.5 metric tons (5 short tons) of cocaine in a shipping container in Hamburg, with a street value of nearly €1 billion (US$ 1.1 billion). The drugs were discovered two weeks ago during a routine check, resulting in the largest cocaine shipment ever seized in Germany.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Brazil seizes record volumes of cocaine, mostly in the Santos port hub

  

  Brazil seized 25.3 tons of cocaine bound for Europe and Africa in the first half of 2019, up more than 90 percent on the same period last year, officials said on  Monday. Nearly half of the drugs were found at Santos port in southern Brazil, not far from where police recently arrested two men suspected of belonging to Italian mafia 'Ndrangheta'.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 08:01 UTC

  The former head of Venezuela's military intelligence has been arrested by Spanish police over US drug charges.

  

  The US Justice Department, who originally unsealed the charges in 2014, have requested Hugo Carvajal's extradition. Mr Carvajal was a close ally of the country's late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, but in February denounced his successor President Nicolás Maduro.

• Friday, October 26th 2018 - 09:51 UTC

  Honduras domestic political dispute plays to the benefit of Trump and Republicans

  

  The flier began circulating on social media in Honduras this month, showing a lone migrant sketched against a bright red backdrop. It was a call to join a caravan, the work of leftist activists and politicians who had helped lead migrants north in the past. But they also tossed a political spark into the mix, blaming their right-wing government for the exodus: “The violence and poverty is expelling us.”

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

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

  

  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.

• Saturday, June 30th 2018 - 15:34 UTC

  Maradona asked by FIFA “to behave in a respectful manner”

  

  Diego Maradona might be a giant of the game's history, FIFA said on Friday, but even he must show respect to other fans at World Cup stadiums. Asked about complaints that the 57-year-old had made an obscene gesture at other spectators after Argentina snatched a late win on Wednesday, FIFA's World Cup chief executive Colin Smith told reporters that the former Argentine player was a valued part of its Legends program to promote the game.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  UN message on the International Day against drug abuse

  

  Drug challenges are among the most complex problems we face, with wide-ranging impacts on health and well-being, families and communities, security and sustainable development.