Ecuador’s ports, trade and strategic location connect South American cocaine production with consumers in Europe and North America.
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An international criminology expert reviews new drama which examines how undercover work reshapes identity, morality and survival.
Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.
Mexico has been following the same rulebook of engagement with the cartels for much of the past two decades, with very limited success.
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel have set up roadblocks and attacked property and security forces in the days following their leader’s death.
The killing of the Jalisco New Generation cartel’s leader is likely to spark a wave violence.
There is no evidence that US intervention in Venezuela will lead to a meaningful reduction in drugs flowing into the United States.
The Trump administration’s military strategy in Latin America breaches long-established legal rules and norms in three key ways.
The Trump administration deems the Venezuela-based Cartel de los Soles a terrorist organisation, but there are doubts over whether it actually exists.
US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial killings.
A direct confrontation between the US military and Latin America’s drug cartels is edging closer.
The Brazilian president said that ‘it is worrying to equate crime with terrorism,’ in direct reference to Donald Trump’s attempt to equate Latin American organized crime groups with terrorist organizations.
Two airstrikes in recent weeks have been aimed at ‘narcoterrorists’, according to the White House. They’ve been deadly, dangerous and likely ineffective.
In the US, political consensus portrays the fentanyl crisis as a border problem but military action is unlikely to solve the issue.
The use of US force against drug traffickers is not without precedent.
The practice is becoming more localised, with fewer lines running between police forces
Drug mules typically don’t know what they are carrying, or how much.
Daniel Noboa has secured a full term in office as Ecuador’s president.
Troops have been deployed on to Lima’s streets as the country grapples with rising criminal violence.
Colombia’s history as a drug trafficking hub still plays a major role in attracting visitors to the country.
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