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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.
Terrorism designations carry sweeping powers, with little oversight and lasting consequences. Extending those powers to organized crime risks normalizing a process that operates in the shadows.
Claudia Sheinbaum takes office in a climate of spiralling violence.
Alleged Sinaloa cartel leader duped into flying to the US, where arrest awaited him.
Washington looked the other way as coup leaders and drugs cartels conspired to turn Honduras into a center of the cocaine trade.
Widespread violence tied to Ecuadorian drug gangs has left the country looking at a draconian response.
Social bandits have a long history in Latin America.
A series of brazen, highly visible attacks by Mexican drug cartels have killed at least 50 people in the past month, terrorizing citizens and making the government look weak on crime.
The conviction of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who evaded justice in Mexico, is a win for US officials. But it’s a pyrrhic victory in the war on drugs.
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