Cartels drug and narcotic control. Medical search. Frequent questions

In the course of the decades-long drug trafficking conspiracy, the Sinaloa Cartel transported tens of thousands of kilograms of narcotics from Central and South America for distribution in the United States. (globalsecurity.org)

I hereby report to the Congress on the developments since my last report concerning the national emergency with respect to significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia that was declared in Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995. (ucsb.edu)
The Order blocks all property subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which there is any interest of four significant foreign narcotics traffickers, one of whom is now deceased, who were principals in the so-called Cali drug cartel centered in Colombia. (ucsb.edu)
Aruba's geographical position is a blessing and a curse at the same time,' says Eman, alluding to the pleasant climate which attracts thousands of tourists each year, and the unpleasant closeness of the Colombian and Venezuelan northern shores which makes it vulnerable for drug-traffickers. (tni.org)
The Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2011 would provide the Justice Department with new tools to prosecute drug traffickers from foreign countries. (senate.gov)
This legislation closes a loophole abused by drug traffickers who intend for drugs to end up in the United States but supply them through an intermediary. (senate.gov)
It is a numbers game for drug traffickers and distributors alike, since it is inevitable that smugglers and shipments will be intercepted by law enforcement somewhere along the supply chain. (blogspot.com)
It was not aimed at identifying terrorists, but rather the detection of drug traffickers. (alternet.org)
Seven federal police officers were killed Tuesday in a shootout with drug traffickers in northeastern Culiacan. (newsmax.com)
The strategy includes an expansion of the Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit (TCIU) Program, which is HSI's primary mechanism for achieving law enforcement outcomes abroad, including the interdiction of precursor chemicals, the shuttering of clandestine fentanyl labs, and the arrest of drug traffickers. (dhs.gov)
The relatively low profile and transnational links of Dominican traffickers in the United States may make them more attractive associates for Mexican drug trafficking groups to work with as US authorities are focused on other groups like the MS13. (insightcrime.org)

This multi-million dollar narcotics syndicate headed by members of the Urbina family allegedly has operated in North Camden for many years, pushing its poison to countless young users and ruling its turf with intimidation and violence," said Hoffman in a written statement. (6abc.com)
Camarena's work as an agent led to the discovery of a multi-million dollar narcotics operation in Mexico. (army.mil)

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel started delivering food parcels and medicines in cardboard boxes . (nationalinterest.org)
Both cartels are using the cardboard boxes and face masks as a propaganda tool , printing the outside of both items with stencil-style images of former Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman , or the present head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho" . (nationalinterest.org)
Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known by various aliases, including "El Chapo" and "El Rapido," was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York of being a principal operator of a continuing criminal enterprise - the Mexican organized crime syndicate known as the Sinaloa Cartel - a charge that includes 26 drug-related violations and one murder conspiracy. (globalsecurity.org)
As proven at trial, Guzman Loera was a principal leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a Mexico-based international drug trafficking organization responsible for importing and distributing vast quantities of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin into the United States. (globalsecurity.org)
Guzman Loera was repeatedly referred to by witnesses as one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. (globalsecurity.org)
Guzman Loera also used " sicarios ," or hit men, who carried out hundreds of acts of violence in Mexico to enforce Sinaloa's control of territories and to eliminate those who posed a threat to the Sinaloa Cartel. (globalsecurity.org)
Multiple witnesses testified about seizures by law enforcement officers of massive amounts of cocaine, heroin and marijuana linked to the Sinaloa Cartel. (globalsecurity.org)
The success of the Sinaloa Cartel relied upon the use of violence to maintain their power throughout the region and beyond. (globalsecurity.org)
The four main drug cartels are the Sinaloa cartel, the Gulf cartel, the Juarez cartel, and the Tijuana cartel. (theseoultimes.com)
Guzmán is described as "a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel" in a press release issued by the United States State Department on December 16 , prior to his arrest. (kvia.com)
The state of Sinaloa is home to the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world's most powerful narcotics trafficking organizations. (kvia.com)

Prior to his political career he had been a police officer and had actually set up the anti-narcotics squad. (tni.org)
Yet until recently Russia blocked formation of an anti-narcotics organization proposed by the United States that would strive to choke off these routes. (bearr.org)
Allan D' Sa, Deputy Superintendent of Police and Anti-Narcotics chief of Goa, admitted on the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, that "Goa has become a transit point for all the drug peddlers and from here drugs like charas, hashish and ganja are being pushed to other parts. (himvani.com)

The US is concerned about credible reports that some members of the Aruban government met regularly with individuals associated with drug trafficking and money laundering syndicates. (tni.org)
Two recent books from South Africa detail the links between drug cartels and crime syndicates, which allege a cosy relationship with some powerful politicians, from the late former police chief Jackie Selebi to corruption-accused former president Jacob Zuma, to the opposition leader Julius Malema. (ocnus.net)
For 30 years the U.S. government has aggressively pushed almost every nation in the world to sign on to global treaties and pass domestic laws to keep potential drugmaking chemicals away from narcotics syndicates. (borderlandbeat.com)
Illegal marijuana grows are responsible for an alarming influx of organized crime into our communities, particularly from Mexican drug cartels and Chinese crime syndicates" Drummond noted. (kfor.com)

Drug cartels and gangs aim, in the long term, to replace some of the state's functions in order to guarantee the prosperity of their illegal interests. (nationalinterest.org)
While Mexican cartels do have representatives in cities across the United States to oversee networks there, local gangs get involved in the actual distribution of the narcotics. (blogspot.com)
While there are still many gaps in the understanding of how U.S. gangs interface with Mexican cartels to move drugs around the United States and finally sell them on the retail market, we do know some of the details of gang involvement. (blogspot.com)
Street gangs are present in virtually every U.S. city and town of significant size along the border and are obvious pools of labor for distributing narcotics once they hit the United States. (blogspot.com)
MS-13 is unique among U.S. gangs in that it is involved in trafficking narcotics through Central America and Mexico as well as in distributing narcotics in the United States. (blogspot.com)
The Mexican Mafia works with allied gangs in the American Southwest to control large swaths of territory along both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. (blogspot.com)
Gangs of killers employed by these cartels, fully supported by the Republican Party, control most of America's southwest region and are closely partnered with the LDS (Latter Day Saints) religious sect. (veteranstodayarchives.com)
Rival drug gangs battling for control of their turf have triggered a surge in bloodshed in the past few weeks in northern Mexico, with some 400 murders this year alone in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. (newsmax.com)
The turf wars among these gangs have proven deadlier to innocent civilians than anything seen in the era of the big cartels, and the violence is quickly spreading throughout Mexico and into Central America. (thedailybeast.com)

The Mexican cartels have engaged in a three phase evolutionary process of aerial narcotics trafficking from conventional aircraft (both converted airliners and light craft) to ultralight aircraft to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). (smallwarsjournal.com)
Mexican cartels have also imposed curfews in some regions to stop the spread of the coronavirus in territories under their control . (nationalinterest.org)
But it's not all good news, as apparently Mexican cartels have pivoted from human smuggling to drug smuggling. (fairus.org)
This seizure is a calculated treachery by Mexican Cartels to flood the United States with their poison and expand their customer base while driving addiction and increasing profit margins," Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New York Division's Special Agent in Charge Frank Tarentino said in a statement . (wnd.com)
While the Mexican cartels do have people in the United States, they do not have enough people so positioned to handle the increased workload of distributing narcotics at the retail level. (blogspot.com)

I think we are going to loose it on Aruba,' Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, the Dutch Attorney General, said about the counter-narcotics efforts on the island. (tni.org)
Despite intensified counter-narcotics efforts over the last five years, the military's ability to stop drug smuggling into the U.S. from Latin America has declined as planes and ships have been diverted to combat operations around the globe, according to a senior military officer. (latimes.com)
Any drug interdiction strategy is a Band-Aid, a temporary fix," said Bruce Bagley, who studies U.S. counter-narcotics efforts at the University of Miami at Coral Gables, Fla. "It may reduce the supply for a short time, but what does get in is worth more. (latimes.com)

Within three years Aruba rose from a 'medium risk' to a 'high risk' country in the State Department's annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. (tni.org)

Aurelio Cano Flores, a Mexican national and high ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, was found guilty today by a federal jury of conspiring to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). (justice.gov)
Cano Flores is the highest ranking Gulf Cartel member to be convicted by a U.S. jury in the past 15 years, and his conviction demonstrates the Justice Department's commitment to hold ruthless cartel leaders responsible for importing narcotics into the United States - no matter where they conduct their illegal business. (justice.gov)

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) utilized to transport illicit narcotics across the border from Mexico to the United States. (smallwarsjournal.com)
But the administration in as cynical a political move as I think we've seen in Washington in a long time -and that's saying something-is using this crisis in Mexico and the use of drugs in our own country not to combat the illicit narcotics but to use it as a foundation to argue for stricter gun controls at the federal level in our country," he said. (buckeyefirearms.org)

Guzman Loera also utilized a sophisticated encrypted communications network to operate the global narcotics trafficking operation. (globalsecurity.org)
Behind a thicket of trees, tucked in a clearing, they found an open-air drug factory-not a huge surprise in Sinaloa, the capital of the global narcotics empire built by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. (borderlandbeat.com)

Since April, the distribution of food parcels ( despensas ), money, medicines and face masks to communities by the Gulf Cartel began to be well documented on Twitter and Facebook . (nationalinterest.org)
Our strategy of targeting the highest levels of the Gulf Cartel continues to pay off," said DEA Administrator Leonhart. (justice.gov)
Evidence presented at trial included dozens of lawfully intercepted telephone conversations between Cano Flores and other leaders of the Gulf Cartel, as well as testimony from previously convicted Cartel members. (justice.gov)
According to evidence presented at trial, Cano Flores began working for the Gulf Cartel in approximately 2001 while serving as a police officer in Mexico. (justice.gov)
While serving as a police officer, Cano Flores recruited others into the Gulf Cartel, collected drug money and escorted large shipments of cartel drugs to the U.S. border. (justice.gov)
Cano Flores ultimately rose through the ranks of the Gulf Cartel to become a major transporter of narcotics within Mexico to the U.S. border and became the cartel's top representative in the important border town of Los Guerra, Tamaulipas, Mexico. (justice.gov)
Testimony also established that between 2000 and 2010, the Gulf Cartel grew from an organization of only 100 members controlling three border towns to an organization of 25,000 people controlling the drug trade over approximately half of Mexico. (justice.gov)

Mexico is therefore caught in the middle and the lucrative illegal drug market which flows between the suppliers in South America and the consumers in the United States is a nightmare. (theseoultimes.com)
These apply to drug cartels throughout South America which use Mexico in order to export their illegal drugs, the enormous consumer market in America, the failure of America to solve their own drug problems, geography, and the lack of transparency amongst regional drug agencies and national governments. (theseoultimes.com)
A lingerie model's bid to become the drug-running queenpin of South America seems doomed now that an international warrant has been issued for her arrest. (thedailybeast.com)
Angie Sanselmente Valencia is a gorgeous 30-year-old brunette who set out to establish herself as the leader of a cartel that would use models and beauty queens to run drugs from South America to Europe. (thedailybeast.com)

Key hiring cities for domestic drone production personnel-Mexico City, Querétaro, Guadalajara, and Nuevo León-suggest Sinaloan and Los Zetas cartel involvement at a minimum. (smallwarsjournal.com)
On that Tuesday morning, in broad daylight, the 35 bodies - naked with their hands tied, some showing signs of torture - were strung across one of Veracruz's main avenues along with signs that read: "For Z." According to investigators, the "Z" refers to Los Zetas, the dangerous and powerful drug cartel that since 2008 has controlled narcotic routes in Veracruz state, located on the Gulf of Mexico. (elpais.com)

Russia's Drug Control Service and Ministry of Interior recently released data on the truly tragic nature of the country's drug situation. (bearr.org)

Drug cartels across Latin America have taken responsibility for providing welfare, security and a sense of certainty to the communities under their control. (nationalinterest.org)
With information gathered during the trip, CPJ published a report in November that year titled "Free-Fire Zone," describing how feuds between rival drug cartels over lucrative drug smuggling routes have endangered the lives of journalists, turning the Northern Mexican border into one of the most dangerous places for the practice of journalism in Latin America. (cpj.org)

The new HSI Strategy for Combating Illicit Opioids that we are announcing today will help further align our intelligence and field operations to keep fentanyl off the streets and bring ruthless cartels and criminal organizations to justice. (dhs.gov)

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday claimed to have busted a pan-India drugs trafficking network, operating through the dark web, with the "largest ever" seizure of LSD. (telegraphindia.com)
29608, June 1, 1998), OFAC amended appendices A and B to 31 C.F.R. chapter V, revising information concerning individuals and entities who have been determined to play a significant role in international narcotics trafficking centered in Colombia or have been determined to be owned or controlled by, or to act for or on behalf of, or to be acting as fronts for the Cali cartel in Colombia. (ucsb.edu)
La Loma is also a main route for trafficking drugs, narcotics and weapons to different parts of the country. (nationalinterest.org)
Guzman Loera was convicted of all 10 counts of a superseding indictment, including narcotics trafficking, using a firearm in furtherance of his drug crimes and participating in a money laundering conspiracy. (globalsecurity.org)
photographs and intercepted recordings, detailed the drug trafficking activity of Guzman Loera and his co-conspirators over a 25-year period from January 1989 until December 2014. (globalsecurity.org)
The jury also heard recordings of Guzman Loera's own damning words discussing his drug trafficking, corruption and violence. (globalsecurity.org)
As an information technology engineer testified at trial, Guzman Loera paid him one million dollars to purchase and set up a network to enable the defendant to communicate via the internet with his drug trafficking associates in Colombia, Ecuador, Canada and the United States without fear of being intercepted by law enforcement or his rivals. (globalsecurity.org)
Washington - Legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to help combat international drug trafficking passed the Senate last night. (senate.gov)
In particular, it will help the Justice Department build extradition cases on drug kingpins from the Andean countries of Colombia and Peru who often use Mexican drug trafficking organizations as intermediaries to ship illegal narcotics to the United States. (senate.gov)
A comprehensive approach to combating drug trafficking needs to extend far beyond our borders," said Senator Udall . (senate.gov)
These criminals who sidestep accountability in trafficking dangerous, illegal drugs and chemicals into the United States deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. (senate.gov)
When drug trafficking is left unchecked in foreign countries, it's easier for dangerous drugs to make their way into Pennsylvania, harming communities and putting a strain on local law enforcement, the last line of defense. (senate.gov)
The nature of narcotics trafficking changes as shipments near the border. (blogspot.com)
One way to think about the difference in tactics between trafficking drugs in Central America and Mexico and distributing drugs in the United States is to imagine a company like UPS or FedEx. (blogspot.com)
For over two decades, the Justice Department and the DEA amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls from the USA to as many as 116 countries linked to drug trafficking in order to track drug cartels' distribution networks in the US. (alternet.org)
Russia has made a sudden shift when it comes to combatting narcotics trafficking in Afghanistan. (bearr.org)
It's well known that most of the drugs flowing into Russia originate in Afghanistan, traveling via Central Asian trafficking routes . (bearr.org)
Moscow now believes that a multilateral anti-drug agency, cooperating closely with the Afghan government, which is ridden with corruption, could be effective in addressing cultivation and trafficking issues inside Afghanistan. (bearr.org)
Their father "El Chapo" Guzmán was convicted in the US in 2019 of 10 counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, drug trafficking and firearms charges. (kvia.com)
Concerned about threats posed by use, trafficking, and production of drugs. (cndblog.org)
Drug production, when examined using economic modeling, makes oil racketeering and arms trafficking seem primitive in comparison. (veteranstodayarchives.com)
Calderon, after the meeting, said "drug trafficking has been and still is the chief cause of border violence, which fundamentally stems from one clear fact: the US market for drugs is the biggest in the world. (newsmax.com)
This includes human trafficking and the distribution of dangerous drugs like fentanyl. (kfor.com)
Investigators allege that Morell-Oneill is a fentanyl distributor and that Rodríguez was delivering the money on behalf of a drug associate of Morell-Oneill - an unidentified Mexican drug trafficking organization for which Rodríguez works as a courier, according to an affidavit from Special Agent Jill Hardie of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). (insightcrime.org)
Dominican drug trafficking groups have long had a presence along the East Coast of the United States. (insightcrime.org)
Some of these depend on illegal market-based activities, with the criminal taking advantage of demand for goods that are prohibited or highly regulated, as in the case of drugs, prostitution, counterfeit products or trafficking of people. (who.int)

Turf wars between major Mexican drug cartels vying for control of lucrative trade routes to the U.S. as well Mexican narcotic retail markets have sparked a wave of drug-related violence in some areas of Mexico and, during flare-ups, this creates a flow of dramatic news headlines. (mexperience.com)
The epidemic of drug-related killings continues to rage in Mexico, and cartels show few signs of losing control of lucrative smuggling routes. (latimes.com)

As a result, the Navy and Coast Guard are stopping one of three suspected seaborne drug shipments headed to American shores, Gen. Douglas Fraser, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, told reporters Wednesday. (latimes.com)
But other military craft used to track or interdict drug shipments have been diverted to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the NATO-led air campaign last year in Libya, the coast of Somalia to hunt pirates and the Persian Gulf to beef up the Navy's presence as tensions build with Iran. (latimes.com)
Some economists and academics have argued that capturing illegal drug shipments drives up the price on American streets and serves to further enrich the cartels. (latimes.com)
The strategy announced today leverages HSI's extensive expertise in investigating cross-border criminal activity and its unique access to customs and financial data to prevent illicit shipments of drug precursor chemicals from reaching U.S. borders, in line with President Biden's National Drug Control Strategy. (dhs.gov)

Hard narcotics, such as heroin, methamphetamines and fentanyl have all increased this year compared to last, according to Border Patrol sources. (fairus.org)
It also defuses the power behind any ask from the Biden administration to stem the tide of fentanyl and other narcotics across the border," she added. (kvia.com)
Interrupting the precursor supply chain further prevents the synthesis of drugs like fentanyl and methamphetamines. (dhs.gov)
Heroin laced with fentanyl is one of the main ways that the drug is sold and consumed in the United States. (insightcrime.org)

If America likewise legalized narcotics and regulated them through health agencies, would today's drug murders, police cost and prison expense similarly be eliminated? (drugwarrant.com)
During an interview on CBS' "Early Show" on March 26, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: "We have to recognize and accept that the demand for drugs from the United States drives them north, and the guns that are used by the drug cartels against the police and the military, 90 percent of them come from America. (factcheck.org)
The Navy has four frigates on patrol in the Caribbean and along the Pacific coast of Central America - one more than usual - as the U.S. works with regional allies in an anti-drug operation aimed at pushing smugglers further offshore. (latimes.com)
Without the right chemicals, it's impossible for cartels to make two drugs that are plaguing America: heroin and methamphetamine. (borderlandbeat.com)
This is often overlooked by other nations, but sadly America is the biggest consumer of illegal drugs in the world, therefore, Mexico, and other regional nations, are faced by this reality. (theseoultimes.com)
Therefore, because of geography and the major illegal drug market in America, this crisis is now growing out of control. (theseoultimes.com)
Therefore, you have to have some sympathy for the leader of Mexico because President Calderon is not in control of the narcotic crisis in America. (theseoultimes.com)
Given this, it is vital that America spends more money on launching an internal crackdown against the usage of drugs in America. (theseoultimes.com)
At the same time, the border between America and Mexico must be brought under control because illegal immigration is a major problem. (theseoultimes.com)
This applies to poverty within America, which in turn means that drug cartels can manipulate this situation to their own respective advantage. (theseoultimes.com)
So clearly, Mexico is blighted by geography and the illegal drug consumer culture of America. (theseoultimes.com)
The internal factors are weak central government in parts of Mexico, police corruption, geography, poverty, the infrastructure, and limited control over the border area with America. (theseoultimes.com)
However, until the domestic illegal drug market is brought under control in America, I believe that Calderon and Mexico are merely banging their head against a brick wall. (theseoultimes.com)

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty said yesterday that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested suspected members of the Tijuana drug cartel controlled by the Arellano Félix family. (cpj.org)

He was the successor of Alberto Espinoza Barrón, a drug trafficker who was arrested on 31 December 2008 by the Mexican authorities. (wikipedia.org)
US and Mexican authorities have identified Queretaro, Guadalajara, Nuevo Leon and Mexico City as the drone production points, where cartels pay professionals two to three times their normal salary for this custom technology. (smallwarsjournal.com)
The Obama administration has sought to increase cooperation with authorities in Mexico and Central American countries to dismantle drug cartels operating from Panama to the U.S. border. (latimes.com)
International narcotics authorities can interdict sales between nations, but not within them. (borderlandbeat.com)
Mexican federal authorities, who took over the probe in August 2004, believe that Ortiz Franco was killed because of his work as a journalist, and they consider stories he wrote about the Arellano Félix drug cartel as the probable motive. (cpj.org)
Mexican authorities have arrested Ovidio Guzmán, son of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán , a source from the federal government of Mexico told CNN, in a dramatic operation in the northern state of Sinaloa on Thursday that led to clashes around the city of Culiacán. (kvia.com)
Calderon called on authorities on both sides of the border to "take on their responsibility" in the fight against drugs, adding that "organized crime is a mutual problem that requires joint strategies and responses. (newsmax.com)
The strategy is broadly aligned with President Biden's National Drug Control Strategy , building on HSI's unique customs authorities at the border. (dhs.gov)

During the decade-long U.S. heroin epidemic, Avantor has cultivated a remarkable line of business: selling acetic anhydride across Mexico in containers that are big enough to make lucrative quantities of illegal narcotics but small enough to load into the trunk of a car. (borderlandbeat.com)
Mexico is the source of the vast majority of the heroin and meth sold in the U.S., where more than 142,000 people died from overdoses involving the two drugs from 2010 through 2018. (borderlandbeat.com)

The American factor is a serious issue because drug cartels in Mexico are fighting over the control of this lucrative trade route. (theseoultimes.com)

Aurelio Cano Flores was convicted today of leading one of the world's most notorious criminal organizations in a conspiracy to traffic massive quantities of illegal drugs into the United States," said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. (justice.gov)
At stake is access to the world's biggest market for narcotics, the United States. (newsmax.com)

Numerous co-conspirators testified that Guzman Loera directed his hitmen to kidnap, interrogate, torture and shoot members of rival drug organizations, at times carrying out acts of violence himself. (globalsecurity.org)
On Thursday, eleven people were shot to death in Chihuahua state, in what police said was part of the continuing turf war between rival drug cartels. (newsmax.com)

The State Department, which was offering a $5 million reward for information leading to Guzman's arrest, wrote that law enforcement investigations indicated that Guzmán and his brother, Joaquín Guzmán-López, "inherited a great deal of the narcotics proceeds" following the death of another brother, Edgar Guzmán-López. (kvia.com)
Proceeds of drug cartels financing terrorist and extremist groups. (cndblog.org)

Mexican criminal organizations have been using UAVs since at least 2010 , but the relatively small amount of drugs transported per trip on the drones registered by the DEA helps explain why the cartels want to develop larger, specially tailored UAVs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Transnational criminal organizations constantly find new ways to circumvent our laws," said Senator Feinstein , Chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. (senate.gov)

This doesn't mean that the U.S. should scramble for more drug-interdiction boats and planes," said Vanda Felbab-Brown, an expert on drug policy at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington. (latimes.com)

Increasingly militarized since the 1980s, US drug policy has more recently become increasingly privatized. (alternet.org)
The CIA has been doing this since the early 1980s and, as every sane person in the world knows, built the drug empire in Afghanistan, the largest in the world. (veteranstodayarchives.com)
She eventually made her way to Mexico, where she met the leader of a cartel known as "The Monster"-one of the many smaller-scale operations that have taken control of the Mexican drug trade since the recent dismantling of the big cartels that dominated in the 1980s and '90s. (thedailybeast.com)

Mexico 's drug cartels are reportedly commissioning custom-made drones to transport narcotics across the US border, illustrating the continual development of innovative new technologies and methods used to traffic drugs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Cartels have begun hiring local workers from companies in Mexico to develop custom drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), suited to their needs, according to an unnamed Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) source consulted by El Universal . (smallwarsjournal.com)
As drone technology worldwide becomes increasingly accessible and cost effective, commissioning custom-made drones in Mexico is the next logical step for cartels. (smallwarsjournal.com)
The billions of illicit dollars generated from drug sales in the United States were then clandestinely transported back to Mexico. (globalsecurity.org)
In recent weeks, efforts by the United States and Mexico to stop the illegal transfer of guns and drugs along their shared border have been on the front burner. (factcheck.org)
The majority of visits to Mexico remain trouble-free and the violence brought about by the ongoing drug-cartel situation has left tourists, foreign business visitors, foreign residents, and most Mexicans largely unaffected. (mexperience.com)
He cited estimates of 35,000 to 40,000 drug-related homicides in the last five years in Mexico, spoke of how dangerous tourist areas have become and noted recent State Department travel warnings. (buckeyefirearms.org)
When they do talk about what's happening in Mexico, our government, our White House follows the Mexican line by saying that the real problem of drug-related violence in Mexico is caused by guns that have come illegally across the U.S.-Mexican border," he said. (buckeyefirearms.org)
So stiffer gun controls in the United States will solve the problem of drug violence in Mexico and prevent it from coming here. (buckeyefirearms.org)
Avantor is one of a handful of U.S. companies that supply the legal market for those chemicals in Mexico-a market the cartels have had little trouble tapping to make narcotics on a massive scale, a Bloomberg Businessweek investigation has found. (borderlandbeat.com)
This is modern day Mexico, it is a nation in crisis and the drug cartels are causing carnage and mayhem in Mexico, and in other regional nations. (theseoultimes.com)
When we add this to abject poverty in parts of Mexico alongside weak centralization in parts of this nation, then it is apparent that drug cartels can manipulate the situation to their own advantage. (theseoultimes.com)
However, for the drug cartels in Mexico, this meant that the flow of drugs would increase through their territory and again it was boom time. (theseoultimes.com)
Yet the external factors appear even more problematic and clearly these problems are out of the control of Mexico. (theseoultimes.com)
Identified by Mexico´s General Attorney Office (Procuraduria General de la Republica-PGR), as the leader of the New Juarez Cartel, Alberto Carrillo Fuentes was chased by Federal Police since the beginning of this administration. (borderlandbeat.com)
Capturing Guzmán could be a way for López Obrador to show the US that he is "in control of the armed forces and Mexico 's security situation," Gladys McCormick, a associate professor at Syracuse University who focuses on Mexico-U.S. relations, told CNN in an email. (kvia.com)
Citizens of Deseret control much of the FBI and CIA, gambling operations in Las Vegas and have enjoyed over a century of partnership with lawless elements in Mexico. (veteranstodayarchives.com)
MEXICO CITY - Visiting California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he will hold a Hollywood meeting on drugs and immigration between Mexican and US officials. (newsmax.com)
Schwarzenegger and the governors of New Mexico, Texas and the six border Mexican states met Thursday with Mexican President Felipe Calderon at his office to discuss the spiralling, drug-related violence in Mexico and immigration issues. (newsmax.com)
The fight Mexico is waging is costing the lives of Mexican police officers every day, even though the majority of (drug) consumers are American," said Calderon. (newsmax.com)
The escalation of the drug war in Mexico in recent years, and the much-heralded arrests of some of the country's leading kingpins, has failed miserably at stemming the flow of narcotics into the U.S. and Europe. (thedailybeast.com)

Prisons are crammed with narcotics offenders. (drugwarrant.com)

The program fortunately does not have access to smallpox, which the Station Chief assures me is held only by us, Russia and Switzerland, which took the precaution of stockpiling the virus shortly before its eradication 1977, as a future resource for their drug companies, which are an important part of their economy. (tbrnews.org)
Prosecutor Timothy Coughlin, Chief of the Narcotics Unit for the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego, Calif., told CPJ that Villarreal was among those arrested. (cpj.org)
Whether it's a family or a single male, the drug cartels play a role in every illegal crossing into the U.S. at the southern border, former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott says. (dailysignal.com)

Bangladesh still has a terrorism problem and cross-border drug cartels pose a significant threat to its national security. (southasiamonitor.org)

Also added were six companies and one individual that have been determined to be owned or controlled by, or to act for or on behalf of, or to be acting as fronts for the Cali cartel in Colombia. (ucsb.edu)
For example, the 2007 " Report to Congress On Certain Counter narcotics Activities in Colombia " mentions that Telford Aviation provided logistical support for reconnaissance aircraft and ITT and ARINC were responsible for operating radar stations. (alternet.org)

Alberto Carrillo Fuentes seeked to reestablish the presence of the Juarez Cartel, founded by his brother Amado Carrillo Fuentes aka "El Señor de los Cielos", he was at the forefront of an intense war against the criminal group led by Joaquin Guzman Loera aka "El Chapo", mainly on the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora, Coahuila and Durango. (borderlandbeat.com)

Cárteles del narcotráfico están fabricando en México sus propias aeronaves no tripuladas o drones para traficar droga hacia los Estados Unidos, para lo cual están utilizando a trabajadores de empresas que tienen ensambladoras de drones en territorio mexicano, según información de la Agencia Antidrogas de Estados Unidos (DEA). (smallwarsjournal.com)
La evolución de los cárteles en escuadrones de la muerte que luchan por el control del territorio con armamento militar reta el monopolio del estado mexicano sobre el uso de la fuerza en algunas regiones. (crisisgroup.org)

Acetic anhydride was placed in the highest category of control in 2001. (borderlandbeat.com)

Darknet refers to the deep hidden internet platform that is used for narcotics sale, exchange of pornographic content and other illegal activities by using the secret alleys of the onion router (ToR) to stay away from the surveillance of law enforcement agencies. (telegraphindia.com)
Since 2012, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has documented about 150 of these confirmed UAV intrusions. (smallwarsjournal.com)
This bill will give law enforcement the necessary tools to take the international drug trade head on. (senate.gov)
This is something that is music to the ears of the gun control advocates in this country," he added, "because they can say, 'See, actually, it's our lack of gun controls, our lack of enforcement, that's the real cause of the problem. (buckeyefirearms.org)
Along with our domestic and international law enforcement partners, we will continue to bring our resource to bear to ensure that cartel members and associates are brought to justice for the damage they inflict on both sides of the border. (justice.gov)
But it actually concerned a mass surveillance operation that had taken place a decade earlier, not by the NSA, but by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). (alternet.org)
In addition, 88,000 people were arrested in 2012 on drug-related charges and law enforcement agencies seized 85 tons of narcotic. (bearr.org)
By "security," we mean killings, in this case, the group had actually been hired by Americans law enforcement posing as Colombian drug dealers. (veteranstodayarchives.com)
Their job was to murder anyone, including drug enforcement officers, public officials and their family members, even the president of the United States, if asked. (veteranstodayarchives.com)
The program was founded in honor of Enrique 'Kiki' Camarena, a Drug Enforcement Agency agent tortured and killed by a drug cartel in 1985. (army.mil)
The result, he says, is that "it overwhelms all the law enforcement resources so that [the cartels] can push a second wave through, commonly referred to nowadays as 'gotaways. (dailysignal.com)
The gotaways tend to be individuals who are "willing to pay more to not encounter a law enforcement officer," Scott says, adding, "That's where most of the narcotics [are]. (dailysignal.com)
In light of their complexity, the crime control response to these offences typically involves additional strategies over and above those used in traditional law enforcement. (who.int)

Carrillo Fuentes tried to recover the control of the drug trade in Ciudad Juarez, a city where the criminal group of "El Chapo" Guzman arrived during the past Federal Administration causing intense shootouts making Ciudad Juarez one of the world´s most violent cities. (borderlandbeat.com)
El Chapo" was the leader of the cartel before he was sentenced to life in prison in 2020. (kvia.com)

The indictment follows the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) kingpin strategy of targeting the upper echelon of Mara Salvatrucha's (MS-13) leadership-the Ranfla Nacional in El Salvador-with the intent of demolishing its command and control (C 2 ) structure. (smallwarsjournal.com)

Thus they guarantee that the narcotics trade will remain in the hands of criminals. (drugwarrant.com)
Closing loopholes in the law is necessary to arm the Justice Department with the legal tools they need to crack down on these criminals, who use intermediaries to ship drugs or chemicals into our country, where they threaten the health and safety our citizens," said Senator Blumenthal . (senate.gov)
There have also been tales of apartheid-era cops-turned-criminals peddling drugs, particularly Mandrax , to get money to run dirty operations. (ocnus.net)
Much of what is contained in the book is material that was already in the public domain, but Dolley pieced together a picture of how international cartels interact with South African criminals, and even politicians and officials. (ocnus.net)

Some experts argue that the U.S. should focus more on reducing demand for narcotics and curbing cartel violence than on assigning more military assets to chasing drug smugglers. (latimes.com)

Ensures current penalties apply to chemical producers from other countries (including producers of pseudoephedrine used for methamphetamine) that illegally ship precursor chemicals into the U.S. knowing these chemicals will be used to make illegal drugs. (senate.gov)
But under international drug laws it's one of the most strictly controlled "precursor and essential chemicals" for the production of illegal narcotics. (borderlandbeat.com)

Nicolaas thinks today nothing has really changed: 'The island is still infested with 'narco-complacientes', people who benefit from the drug trade. (tni.org)
According to Eman, Aruba is burdened with the problem of other nations: 'The drug trade is not Aruba's primary responsibility. (tni.org)
Mexico's Ciudad Juárez saw a decrease in killings last month, with 48 homicides, 40 of them related to the drug trade, down from more than 300 deaths in many months of 2010, when drug violence was at its peak. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
With this legislation, prosecutors will have the tools they need to more effectively go after the sources of the illegal drug trade and bring to justice the kingpins who produce and traffic the millions of pounds of narcotics that find their way into our communities every year. (senate.gov)
The international drug trade contributes to violent unrest and countless deaths across the world every year. (senate.gov)
The involvement of politicians in the drug trade is historic and ties run deep. (ocnus.net)
International and U.S. drug laws regulate the trade worldwide, but their reach often ends at the Mexican border for local subsidiaries of American companies. (borderlandbeat.com)
The weakening of old powerhouses such as the Arellano-Felix Organization has done nothing to curb the drug trade or decrease violence. (thedailybeast.com)

And the elite force remains one of the important agencies to curb terrorism and narcotics control. (southasiamonitor.org)
Were worldwide press censorship to ease, the public would learn that America's drone program is used more for maintaining control of drug production and distribution than terrorism. (veteranstodayarchives.com)

Making their way down a narrow country road in the Mexican state of Sinaloa one morning in May 2019, members of a counter-narcotics squad were struck by a strong chemical smell. (borderlandbeat.com)

Chaos broke out in the city around Guzmán's arrest on Thursday, with local officials telling citizens to shelter at home amid clashes with cartel members in various parts of Culiacán. (kvia.com)
Before the last election, in meetings with the former head of the FBI's drug task force, I was given documents outlining ties between top Republican Party officials and the Mexican drug cartels, which are currently terrorizing over a dozen American states. (veteranstodayarchives.com)
Officials say the task force is working alongside the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN), the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority and other state agencies to investigate all crimes regarding illegal grow operations. (kfor.com)

THIS week's mass murder in a drug-infested St. Albans suburb raises a troubling thought: Much of America's criminality and gun violence among addicts and illegal drug dealers apparently is spawned by the nation's harsh prohibition of narcotics. (drugwarrant.com)
At the same time, illegal groups controlling these northern regions are demanding that the population obey government measures set in place to confront the epidemic , creating a clear system of local co-governance . (nationalinterest.org)
The suite of immigration control measures taken by the Trump administration - including the Migrant Protection Protocols , the Mexican crackdown on its southern border, interior repatriation of Mexicans and third safe country agreements with several Central American countries - have continued to drive illegal alien apprehensions down. (fairus.org)
This bill makes it clear that drug kingpins who export illegal drugs into the United States will be pursued. (senate.gov)
After all, it is the lucrative illegal drug market which is the cause of this problem. (theseoultimes.com)
Northrop Grumman, under its contract, flew over the Colombian jungle with aircraft equipped with infrared cameras in order to track illegal activities related to drugs or guerrilla movements. (alternet.org)
Concern over scope of illegal production of drugs. (cndblog.org)
This week's arrest of a model-turned-drug-queen spotlights a new breed of female narcas who use their sex appeal to traffic illegal substances and charm their way to the top of drug cartels. (thedailybeast.com)
Mexico's queenpins are famous for spending lavish amounts of money on plastic surgery, and the drug cartels have long been known to recruit beauty-pageant contestants to transport illegal substances. (thedailybeast.com)
Illegal cultivation of opium in Kullu valley has transformed it morbidly and has turned it into a haven for drug peddlers who freely traffic cocaine, brown sugar, smack, and other narcotics. (himvani.com)
The cartels are taking advantage of the Biden administration's border policies , Scott says, explaining that because most illegal aliens coming across the border are released into the U.S. interior, the cartels "push [asylum-seekers] all across at the same time. (dailysignal.com)

Since 2012, the DEA has registered around 150 narco drones crossing the border, transporting in total approximately two tons of cocaine and other drugs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
While cartels used to use foreign-made drones, the new reliance on home-grown technology and construction is more cost-effective -- the method is cheaper than the construction of cross-border tunnels or the use of semi-submersible vessels, according to El Universal's report. (smallwarsjournal.com)
The emergence of the coronavirus has given new meaning and importance to border control - not just in the U.S. but across the globe. (fairus.org)
They're either directly paying the cartels or the cartels are controlling their movements for another benefit, meaning to systematically overwhelm Border Patrol, create a gap in the border security, and then bring the narcotics across," Scott says. (dailysignal.com)

Camilo Mejia Giraldo, "Mexico's Cartels Building Custom-Made Narco Drones: DEA. (smallwarsjournal.com)

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 24 (ANI): Arrested jeweller Vicky Jain from Bhiwandi has been sent to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody till January 27 by Esplanade Magistrate Court in Mumbai. (businessworld.in)

The cartel leader faces drug conspiracy and racketeering charges, the newspaper said. (cpj.org)

In effect, this suspicion of US intentions caused Russia to ignore its best interests, namely taking action to stem the flood of drugs into the country. (bearr.org)

Cops will still be able to arrest people for drug possession under a Washington state compromise. (stopthedrugwar.org)
Need drug policies centred on people. (cndblog.org)
Sadly, today the tourist influx in Himachal owes more to narcotic nexus than to the outstanding geography, people and culture. (himvani.com)
Cartels Are Shifting From Smuggling Drugs to Smuggling People. (dailysignal.com)

Two alleged Mexican cartel affiliates were released after their arrests for allegedly possessing 165 pounds of crystal meth, the New York Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced Monday. (wnd.com)

Drug cartels are continually evolving, and this legislation ensures that our criminal laws keep pace," said Senator Grassley , Co-chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. (senate.gov)
Clash of the Cartels , a chronicle of international drug syndicate activity in South Africa by Daily Maverick crime journalist Caryn Dolley was officially released on 10 November. (ocnus.net)
And I believe right at the top of it is [to] increase gun control at the federal level and at the international level. (buckeyefirearms.org)
Russian Federation - UNGASS is a very important and necessary step to promote international counter-narcotics cooperation. (cndblog.org)
Hope the outcome of UNGASS will strengthen international anti-drug cooperation. (cndblog.org)
Drug Control: Long-Standing Problems Hinder U.S. International Efforts (Letter Report, 02/27/97, GAO/NSIAD-97-75). (druglibrary.net)
and (3) suggestions to improve the operational effectiveness of the U.S. international drug control efforts. (druglibrary.net)

The discovery of 35 bodies in a tourist zone in the coastal resort city of Veracruz on September 20 may have once again startled Mexicans who have grown accustomed to the daily finds of mutilated victims from an ongoing drug war. (elpais.com)

The cartels don't have any problem getting their hands on one. (borderlandbeat.com)
Also, drug cartels can move between both nations and this is a real problem. (theseoultimes.com)
Russian criticism of the US policy for not going after drug lords and not destroying Afghan poppy fields reached a crescendo in 2011 - even as this drumbeat ignored what US officers serving in Afghanistan knew very well: that members of the Russian military and government were corrupt and part of the problem. (bearr.org)
Drug problem cannot be countered by punitive measures alone. (cndblog.org)
Iceland - Discuss openly and without prejudice how we can tackle the world drug problem. (cndblog.org)
Committed to fight against narcotic drug problem. (cndblog.org)

Veracruz is one of the Mexican states that has suffered most this year from drug-related violence. (elpais.com)
However, you have many other drug cartels and a power vacuum is also causing mayhem, for ironically, every time a major leader is killed or put in chains, then others try to take over and internal and external violence is unleashed. (theseoultimes.com)

Under a scheme envisioned by Russia, a newly created multinational drug agency would operate under the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's auspices, and coordinate directly with individual, member states. (bearr.org)

In the U.S. the companies operate under tough U.S. drug laws, which charge them with ensuring their chemicals aren't being diverted to make narcotics. (borderlandbeat.com)

But there is a wide network of ex-prisoner gang members on the outside involved in criminal activities, including drug smuggling, which is one of the most accessible ways for a gang member to make money when he is released from prison. (blogspot.com)
On the other side of the low-level war, members of the African National Congress - which was banned until 1991 - were said to have accepted money from a notorious Indian drug smuggler, Vicky Goswami . (ocnus.net)
The actual gunman, Jorge Eduardo Ronquillo Delgado, was killed by fellow cartel members on October 2004, Vasconcelos told CPJ last year. (cpj.org)
The members of congress paid by the insurance and health care racketeers were, in dozens of cases, put into office by drug money laundered through offshore accounts controlled for them by former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (veteranstodayarchives.com)
Students from two of Fort Jackson's elementary schools receive goody bags and a reminder to "be drug-free" from members of the Ready and Resilient Campaign team. (army.mil)

One of the largest seizures of drugs bound for the United States involved over seven tons of cocaine concealed in jalapeño cans. (globalsecurity.org)

A demand for these drugs in the United States is what is helping to keep these cartels in business. (factcheck.org)
After all, we are talking about a drug business which is estimated to be between $12 billion dollars to $14 billion dollars a year. (theseoultimes.com)
Using beauty and charm to gain power is the most common strategy for women who wish to succeed in the drug-running business. (thedailybeast.com)
Some of the displaced Afghans chose Kullu as their foster home and subsequently it led to the first planned narcotic business in the valley, though cannabis and poppy were not entirely unknown to the area. (himvani.com)

The NSA's $4 billion "fusion center" is being constructed in Utah, an LDS-controlled region, "ground zero" for the Kingdom of Deseret. (veteranstodayarchives.com)

His drug cartel, La Familia Michoacana uses murder and torture to quash rivals, while building a social base in the Mexican state of Michoacán. (wikipedia.org)
Carrillo has charges against him for organized crime, crimes against health(drugs), and murder. (borderlandbeat.com)
Within their own community, they maintained control through "Avenging Angels," assassins that enforced religious doctrine and hierarchical control, though murder. (veteranstodayarchives.com)

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