Topic: Drug Crimes
Top galleries, list articles, quizzes
-
Briefing
Colombia - FARC peace talks: 4 things you need to know
Colombia has ample experience holding peace talks – though over the past 50 years, it’s seen little peace. But in early September, President Juan Manuel Santos announced peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Here are four things you need to know about the landmark peace process.
-
5 countries where the death penalty is legal but rare
India’s Supreme Court sentenced the last surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, to death. Here is a list of 5 countries where the death penalty is a legal possibility, though rare.
-
How much do you know about Mexico? Take our quiz.
From Pre-Columbian civilization to the drug trafficking organizations of today, how much do you know about the United States' neighbor to the south?
-
Briefing
Decriminalize marijuana? Four ways America's views of pot are changing
As polls show national opinion toward marijuana use steadily changing toward greater acceptance, laws are changing and ballot initiatives are coming before voters.
-
Osama bin Laden papers: top 5 revelations
A new trove of letters seized during the Osama bin Laden raid paint an intimate picture of the inner workings and struggles of Al Qaeda, from its dabbling in the stock market to practices that would make any Mafia don proud.
All Content
-
Opinion: As violent Puerto Rican drug trade seeps into mainland US, Washington must act
Drug trafficking is at the root of most of the 1,136 homicides perpetrated in Puerto Rico in 2011, the highest number ever recorded, exceeding even Mexico's murder rate. The Puerto Rican government cannot manage this crisis alone. Washington must intervene.
-
Latin America Monitor Peru captures rebel leader. Is this the end of the Shining Path?
President Ollanta Humala declared the Maoist guerrilla group is no longer a threat after the capture of Comrade Artemio, reports guest blogger Hannah Stone.
-
Latin America Monitor Is it the end of paramilitarism in Colombia?
The last of Colombia's paramilitary leaders were captured in Venezuela, marking the end for a group that dominated Colombia's drug trade, writes guest blogger Jeremy McDermott.
-
Latin America Monitor Is Venezuela's military playing role in drug trafficking?
President Hugo Chavez's new defense minister has been accused of drug trafficking, suggesting a level of institutional corruption that could surpass Chavez's control and impact neighboring Colombia.
-
Latin America Monitor Organized crime sets its sights on peaceful Uruguay
Uruguay is known as one of the safest countries in Latin America, but organized crime and violence are on the rise.
-
Miss Bala: movie review
Gerard Naranjo's film about the Mexican drug trade seems to be only an art-house exploitation film.
-
The Zetas now Mexico's largest drug gang. Who are they?
According to Mexican authorities, the Zetas have become the biggest drug trafficking organization in Mexico. A recent report from Stratfor, based on data from Mexico's attorney general's office, says the group now operates in 17 states, surpassing the geographical sway of the once-dominant Sinaloa Federation.
-
Unanimous Supreme Court: Get a warrant before installing GPS tracking device
The ruling upholds a broad right to be free from unreasonable searches. But it also highlights a struggle within the Supreme Court to balance law enforcement objectives with privacy concerns.
-
Latin America Monitor Honduras: home to the most violent city in the hemisphere?
Amid rising crime, the Peace Corps pulled out of in Honduras this week.
-
Latin America Monitor What Guatemala's new president wants from the US
Former Gen. Otto Perez Molina, who will be inaugurated as Guatemala's president today, plans to push for renewed US military aid, raising concerns among critics of his legacy from Guatemala's civil war.
-
Growing Catholic divide over Mexico drug war
A bishop is among those alleging human rights abuses by state, but the church stands behind President Calderón's military-led crackdown on the Mexico drug war.
-
Latin America Monitor Hezbollah in Latin America: an over-hyped threat?
The indictment of a Lebanese man accused of running a money-laundering and drug-trafficking ring for Hezbollah in Colombia has sparked fresh concerns about the Islamic militia group's connections to organized crime in Latin America.
-
Smugglers' air force? Drug war sees rise in use of ultralight planes.
Ultralight planes have become an increasingly popular vehicle for smugglers in the US-Mexico border drug war. The aircraft are hard to spot and can haul hundreds of pounds of illicit cargo.
-
Latin America Monitor How Mexico's Zapatista guerrillas stayed clear of organized crime
Mexico's Zapatistas are distinct from most other rebels groups in Latin America, having remained within a democratic framework without getting involved in organized crime to secure funding.
-
Latin America Monitor Dim forecast for security in Honduras in 2012
Despite Honduran efforts to promote police reform and check organized crime, the country has become a major transit point for cocaine, and the future of its democratic institutions looks bleak.
-
Veracruz police disbanded: many in Mexico won't notice
The Mexican city's 1,100-member police force has just been fired, with the Navy put in charge of civilian security. Many in Veracruz won't miss the cops, whom they distrust.
-
'Messenger Angels' protest crime in Mexico, wearing angels' wings (video)
Calling themselves 'Messenger Angels,' youth members of an evangelical church are protesting Mexico's drug violence by taking to the streets carrying signs and wearing angel costumes.
-
Is Puerto Rico becoming a narco-state?
The island's murder rate, which will likely set a record this year, and a police force that a top official at the US Justice Department called 'one of the worst I've seen' both fit the definition of a narco-state.
-
Panama's Noriega returns: Now, what secrets might he spill?
As the former dictator Manuel Noriega returns to Panama, residents are wondering what sorts of information he could share about the past.
-
Ex-dictator Manuel Noriega headed home to Panama
Citizens of Panama have mixed feelings on the return of Manuel Noriega, a dictator deposed and imprisoned by the United States.
-
Despite rise of Mexican cartels, Colombian traffickers still strong in Central America
Although much has been made of Mexican cartels' spread into Central America, they have not supplanted Colombia-based drug traffickers, who are still highly active in the region.
-
China executes Filipino drug trafficker, draws attention to Chinese drug problem
China, the world’s most prolific executioner, put a Filipino drug trafficker to death Thursday despite an appeal from the Philippine president.
-
Cover Story Mexico drug war casualty: Citizenry suffers post-traumatic stress
Outwardly, life seems normal; but as drug war kidnappings, extortion, and violence brush closer to the average citizen, experts say, the mental terrain looks like post-traumatic stress.
-
Mexico's other challenge: to burnish its brand
Can Mexico help the world see past its escalating drug war, and showcase all that it offers?
-
Pervasive insecurity in Mexico: If this isn't 'terror,' what is?
President Calderon called it "terror;" Hilary Clinton called it "insurgency." But still, after 40,000 drug war deaths, the insecurity in Mexico doesn't meet the world standard for "terror."
Previous
Become part of the Monitor community