• The formations of drug cartels are very common in Latin American countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was particularly known for using less violence and many even attribute the current bloodshed due to the turf war between rival cartels to the fall of Félix Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 - December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug overlord. (wikipedia.org)
  • The NVC maintains international drug distribution contacts, including alliances with powerful Mexican cartels. (state.gov)
  • Watch this clip from "The Sharp Response" on Red Voice Media as host Tim Sharp talks to anti-fentanyl political activist Anne Elizabeth about how it may be time to wage war on drug cartels to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States. (naturalnews.com)
  • The different expressions used to define criminal organizations as "cartels" (in Mexico) and "gangs" (in the United States) build a perception that the problem lies abroad. (reviewjournal.com)
  • These organizations are, in fact, cartels. (reviewjournal.com)
  • The bicentennial framework seeks to limit misleading statements on security collaboration, such as proposals to consider cartels as terrorist organizations and use foreign military force against them in Mexico. (reviewjournal.com)
  • The United States needs to contribute more to combat the illicit gun trafficking that arms the cartels and allows their criminal enterprises to operate. (reviewjournal.com)
  • The Mexican government lacks control of large swathes of territory in the country, which it has ceded to private heavily armed cartels. (frontpagemag.com)
  • For criminal organizations in Mexico, see Category:Organized crime groups in Mexico and Drug cartels § Mexico . (wikipedia.org)
  • Uruguay moved a step closer to becoming the first country in the world to legalise marijuana today in a last-ditch assault on the country's ruthless drug cartels. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Felix Gallardo's criminal organization, powerful in the 1980s, is considered the forefather of modern Mexican drug cartels. (punchng.com)
  • Ponce-Rocha has roots in the Beltran-Levya Cartel, a once-powerful Mexican organized crime syndicate that has been obliterated in recent years by rival cartels and law enforcement, though the line between the two can sometimes blur in Mexico. (dailydot.com)
  • The complexity and scale of operations consummated by this money laundering organization are immense-hundreds of millions of drug dollars remitted across six continents on behalf of the World's most violent drug cartels," Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent in Charge John S. Comer said in a statement in late September. (dailydot.com)
  • The Mexican president's ties to cartels, the mysterious release from prison of major cartel figures during his presidency, and the fact that regions of Mexico are under operational control of these paramilitary transnational criminal organizations during his presidency are rarely, if ever, reported in the U.S. The outrageous number of journalists who have been murdered or who have simply disappeared in Peña Nieto's Mexico is also rarely reported. (breitbart.com)
  • A few examples of the current Mexican president's softness towards his nation's drug cartels provide some insight into the realities in Mexico that are ignored by U.S. media. (breitbart.com)
  • Under Peña Nieto, Mexican cartels only grew in power as his government appears to be unable or unwilling to stop the cartel violence. (breitbart.com)
  • How U.S. drug policy is making Mexican cartels more deadly. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Unfortunately, though, the United States has failed to come up with a working strategy to weaken the most powerful players in today's drug trade: the handful of Mexican cartels that control the shipment of drugs across the border. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The United States is, in essence, arming the drug cartels as it fights the drug war. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • One of the reasons why drug cartels thrive in Mexico is the US itself. (allempires.com)
  • The CIA makes these problems worse by backing their own cartels and cartels with ties to the Mexican government, against their rivals, mainly local Mexican cartels. (allempires.com)
  • Because cartels know that the citizens (and even police) in northern Mexico are sitting ducks, and unless there are full-time army patrols in northern Mexico (which they started lately), the people are defenseless. (allempires.com)
  • PW: Well, the neo-liberal policies brought in during the 1980s basically drove millions of Mexicans into poverty, and so provided a cheap labour force for the drugs cartels. (lab.org.uk)
  • And finally, the number of human rights abuses committed by the military during their attempts to control the drugs cartels -illegal detentions, torture, deaths, have shown a six-fold increase. (lab.org.uk)
  • LAB: And so if it is not about any of these factors, what are in your view the reasons for the militarisation of the fight against the drug cartels? (lab.org.uk)
  • LAB: Now that the PRI is returning to power, do you think that will bring any change to the fight against the drug cartels? (lab.org.uk)
  • Excerpt: "The US that exports violence to Mexico, including the guns used by cartels that are easily purchased here and then exported south illegally. (readersupportednews.org)
  • Félix Gallardo still planned to oversee national operations and remained one of Mexico's major traffickers, maintaining his organization via mobile phone until he was transferred in the 1990s to the Altiplano maximum security prison and lost all remaining contacts with other drug lords. (wikipedia.org)
  • By their count, the former army captain not only started several thriving businesses inside and outside of jail, was able to blackmail drug traffickers for millions of dollars, and was contributing money to political campaigns, he was naming nearly all of the top officials in Guatemala's prison system. (insightcrime.org)
  • ABC News correspondents Luke Barr and Sarah Beth Hensley note that 'DHS said it expects illegal drugs produced in Mexico and sold in the United States will continue to kill more Americans than any other threat' and that 'in the past year, traffickers have contributed to more lethal mixes of fentanyl - an already deadly drug - on the market and driving an increase in overdose deaths in the US. (alternet.org)
  • Throughout the continent, the debate on whether or not the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) gang is working with or for drug traffickers continues. (insightcrime.org)
  • This year, the U.S. secretaries of defense, state, and homeland security, as well as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, paid a high-profile group visit to Mexico to demonstrate U.S. solidarity in the fight against Mexico's drug traffickers. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Traffickers today must outwit American soldiers, Drug Enforcement Administration agents, and Border Patrol officers. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Getting the rest there involves evading navies and coast guards at sea and radar surveillance in the air, or navigating an array of land hazards in Central America and Mexico: police and military checkpoints where officers often charge bribes proportional to the price of the drugs, as well as rival traffickers and other criminal organizations. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Specifically, the study finds that most of the persons imprisoned for drugs are not high- or medium-level drug traffickers, but rather occupy the lowest links in the chain. (talkleft.com)
  • These border security hawks charge that the federal government is failing to meet its responsibility to secure the border, pointing to continued illegal crossings by immigrants and drug traffickers. (truthout.org)
  • Barr and Hensley explain that 'more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US during the last year, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (alternet.org)
  • In 2011, more than 1,000 Washingtonians died from drug overdoses, and 52 Washingtonians died from alcohol poisoning in 2015. (drugrehab.com)
  • In 2022, fentanyl was a major contributor to the nearly 110,000 recorded drug deaths - slightly higher than the nearly 108,000 people in the U.S. who died from drug overdoses in 2021. (naturalnews.com)
  • Nearly one million people have died of drug overdose deaths in America in the past two decades, with an increasing majority of those deaths due to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. (alternet.org)
  • Puget Sound's busy ports and international airport are also entry points or distribution hubs for drugs from Central America and Asia. (drugrehab.com)
  • President Obrador portrayed these illegal immigrants as contributors "to the development of that great nation, which is the United States of America. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Marijuana legalization efforts have gained momentum across the Americas in recent years as leaders watch the death toll rise from military responses to unabated drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • 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)
  • From their perspective, there are billions in profits to make from the control of drug trafficking in north America. (allempires.com)
  • Mexico and Colombia have been used to shore up support for the US, when it appears that in much of South America its influence is waning as they start to increase trade with one another, and to promote integration without the US. (lab.org.uk)
  • A new report released last month by the Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA)has some interesting statistics on Mexican and Central American drug arrests. (talkleft.com)
  • The study, Systems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America, published by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), found that the persons who are incarcerated for drug offenses tend to be individuals caught with small amounts of drugs, often users, as well as street-level dealers. (talkleft.com)
  • Report of the International Travelling Seminar on Venereal Disease in the United States of America, 4-31 October 1971. (who.int)
  • by International Travelling Seminar on Venereal Disease in the United States of America (1971: Washington, D.C. (who.int)
  • The pandemic was introduced into Viet Nam via Ho Chi Minh City in early June 2009 by passengers flying in from countries affected by the pandemic, particularly the United States of America and Australia. (who.int)
  • They became a transnational gang due to the drug trafficking industry, and I grew up here in El Paso and I've heard about the Barrio Aztecas all my life and I decided I wanted to learn more about their history and how they got to be connected with such a horrific crime. (kcur.org)
  • As a career prosecutor, I actually went after gangs and transnational criminal organizations. (politifact.com)
  • To win the fight against transnational criminal organizations and illicit drugs we need to remind each other that we are friends, not foes, and only through reciprocity, bilateral cooperation and a deeper understanding we will achieve this goal. (reviewjournal.com)
  • By the 21st century, the transnational capitalist class turned to several mechanisms in order to sustain global accumulation in the face of overaccumulation, above all, financial speculation in the global casino, along with the plunder of public finances, debt-driven growth and state-organized militarized accumulation. (truthout.org)
  • Criminalization of surplus humanity activates state-sanctioned repression that opens up new profit-making opportunities for the transnational capitalist class. (truthout.org)
  • Between April 3 and April 6, Little One, who was accompanied by a blood brother known as "Fast Freddy," helped solidify a transnational drug trafficking business with the cartel's leader, Servando Gómez Martínez, better known to the drug trafficking world as "La Tuta. (insightcrime.org)
  • Guzman Loera used various methods to transport the cartel's narcotics into the United States, including submarines, carbon fiber airplanes, trains with secret compartments and transnational underground tunnels. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Ravi Narayan and Patrick Reinert and was investigated as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program of the United States Department of Justice through a cooperative effort of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Dubuque Drug Task Force. (justice.gov)
  • The case is the result of a two-year investigation by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (alipac.us)
  • The 76-year-old founder of the Guadalajara cartel has been in prison since 1989 for the murder of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent. (punchng.com)
  • The investigation was conducted from 2016 to 2018 following information received from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). (gc.ca)
  • Ramirez was executed by a drug trafficking organization as retaliation for a robbery, according to those federal documents prepared by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). (wave3.com)
  • The drug lord had been convicted of drug charges and the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique Camarena. (breitbart.com)
  • In July 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a nationwide report indicating that hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills have been entering the U.S. drug market since 2014, some containing deadly amounts of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs [2]. (cdc.gov)
  • When a group of independent drug lords collude with each other, in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade, they form an organization called a drug cartel. (wikipedia.org)
  • Known as "El Padrino" (The Godfather) and "El Jefe de Jefes" (The boss of bosses) was born in 1946, and is the founder and former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, the first mexican super-cartel ever established. (wikipedia.org)
  • He had strong ties with the Cali Cartel and Escobar's Medellin Cartel as he distributed drugs for them. (wikipedia.org)
  • Escobar was the boss of the famous Medellin Cartel, the most powerful drug empire to exist and is said to have had over twice the power and money of their rivals, the Cali Cartel. (wikipedia.org)
  • The gang started working for the Juarez cartel, moving and selling its drugs. (kcur.org)
  • URIBE: The Barrio Azteca acquired weapons in the U.S. and then smuggled them into Mexico to arm the cartel. (kcur.org)
  • LOS ANGELES (AP) Four suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel have been arrested and more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine, 9 pounds of cocaine and half a pound of heroin totaling nearly $6 million in street value have been seized in a San Bernardino County raid. (alipac.us)
  • In March, 2004, a federal grand jury in Washington D.C. indicted Ramirez on drug trafficking and RICO charges stemming from his leadership of the North Valle Cartel. (state.gov)
  • A wave of cartel-related violence has left more than 300,000 people dead in Mexico since the government deployed the military in the war on drugs in 2006. (punchng.com)
  • U.S. news outlets appear to have forgotten that the Juarez Cartel and multiple acts of corruption have been linked to the election of the current Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto. (breitbart.com)
  • Those journalists have been under criticism by the Mexican government after discovering the cartel finance link, as well as the fact that Peña Nieto had received properties as bribes from government contractors. (breitbart.com)
  • Breitbart Texas has reported about Mexico's Secretary of the Interior claiming that Mexico's security conditions were the best they had been in a decade, while rival cartel factions fought for control of lucrative drug territories. (breitbart.com)
  • In August 2013, a Mexican federal court released Rafael Caro Quintero, a drug lord who at one time was the leader of the Guadalajara cartel . (breitbart.com)
  • In 2014, another top cartel boss named Rogelio "El Keli or Z-2" Gonzalez Pizana was quietly released from a Mexican federal prison after being cleared of various drug trafficking and organized charges even though he had been convicted and was serving a 16-year-sentence. (breitbart.com)
  • In April 2011, in the Mexican state of Michoacán, Luis Gerardo Vega, alias "Little One," of the MS13 closed a deal with the Knights Templar, a cartel that had helped plunge that area into a near constant state of fear. (insightcrime.org)
  • Martinez testified that the cartel tried to buy a Mexican company, "La Comadre," that produces canned chili peppers, which are approved by the FDA for importation. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • 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 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)
  • A former Mexican defense minister was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on drug and money laundering charges, accused of taking bribes in exchange for permitting a cartel known for wholesale violence to operate with impunity in Mexico, federal prosecutors said Friday. (wral.com)
  • Federal prosecutors said Cienfuegos Zepeda allegedly assisted the H-2 cartel, which was previously led by the late Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez, also known as 'H-2,' and based in Nayarit and Sinaloa, Mexico. (wral.com)
  • The defendant abused that public position to help the H-2 Cartel, an extremely violent Mexican drug trafficking organization, traffic thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States, including New York City,' federal prosecutors said in a letter supporting a motion for a permanent order of detention against the defendant. (wral.com)
  • In exchange for bribe payments, he permitted the H-2 Cartel - a cartel that routinely engaged in wholesale violence, including torture and murder - to operate with impunity in Mexico. (wral.com)
  • Garcia Luna, who was arrested by federal agents in Dallas, Texas, last December, was charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy that involved receiving millions of dollars in bribes from imprisoned drug cartel kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, according to federal prosecutors. (wral.com)
  • AMLO defended the armed forces, calling them 'incorruptible' and 'pillars of the Mexican state' while blaming former administrations of what he called the 'neoliberal period' when tens of thousands of Mexicans were killed in drug-related violence and cartel warfare. (wral.com)
  • He is considered the 'King of Cocaine' and is known as the lord of all drug lords. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a top drug lord in Mexico, Amado Carrillo (1956-1997) was transporting four times more cocaine to the U.S. than any other trafficker, building a fortune of over $25 billion. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1998, Harry was convicted of delivery of cocaine in state court. (justice.gov)
  • Quintero-Sanclemente's drug trafficking organization is responsible for obtaining more than 50 metric tons of cocaine annually from clandestine labs in Colombia to export to Mexico, the United States and Europe. (state.gov)
  • Quintero-Sanclemente has been linked to several cocaine seizures in the United States. (state.gov)
  • Arizona State Troopers Seize Over 229 Pounds of Fentanyl Pills on Interstate 19 Near Amado-- #AZTroopers discovered approximately 229.8 lb of fentanyl pills and 9.65 lb of cocaine worth an estimated $3.1 million. (naturalnews.com)
  • During the mid 1990s, Ramirez-Abadia' s organization was smuggling multi-thousand kilograms of cocaine annually to Los Angeles and San Antonio through Mexico, by ships or go-fast vessels utilizing routes along the Pacific coast. (state.gov)
  • Reporting in 2003 indicates that Ramirez-Abadia was using vessels to transport kilogram quantities of heroin to the United States, in addition to his cocaine trafficking activities. (state.gov)
  • Methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin and cocaine are amongst the predominate drugs in Arizona . (drugnet.net)
  • Law enforcement officers note that in the 1980s and 1990s more and more gang members began to support themselves through dealing drugs, such as crack cocaine and heroin. (encyclopedia.com)
  • It was one of the first to establish contacts with Colombian drug lords to transport cocaine from the South American country to the United States. (punchng.com)
  • During the investigation and the searches, police officers seized significant quantities of drugs, such as cannabis, cocaine, hashish and methamphetamine, for a market value of close to $2.2 million. (gc.ca)
  • The DEA began investigating a drug trafficking organization in November that they believed was bringing kilograms of meth, heroin, cocaine and marijuana into Louisville. (wave3.com)
  • Every year, the United States illegally imports more than 200 metric tons of cocaine, 1,500 metric tons of marijuana, 15 metric tons of heroin, and 20 metric tons of methamphetamines. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • But the cocaine epidemic and the advent of the U.S.-led 'war on drugs' changed the nature of the business. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • One of the largest seizures of drugs bound for the United States involved over seven tons of cocaine concealed in jalapeño cans. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Mexican groups are the main wholesale distributors of marijuana, powdered cocaine and meth. (palmpartners.com)
  • 2 Illicit Drugs include marijuana/hashish, cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants or prescription-type psychotherapeutics used non-medically. (palmpartners.com)
  • General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Secretary of National Defense in Mexico from 2012 to 2018, has been indicted on four counts, including international heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana manufacture and distribution conspiracy, importation and distribution conspiracies, and conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. (wral.com)
  • The state is also a major market for illegal heroin and methamphetamines. (drugrehab.com)
  • Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid painkiller that is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). (naturalnews.com)
  • The production of marijuana and heroin in Mexico through the 1960s and 1970s was the province of small-time operators, many of them family-type organizations, which could move drugs across a laxly policed U.S.-Mexico border without much risk of capture. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In northern Indiana, Southwest Asian white heroin and Mexican brown and black heroin are available. (palmpartners.com)
  • When certain street drugs like heroin aren't available, drug abusers often then turn to incredibly powerful and dangerous synthetics like fentanyl, which sooner or later result in a body bag. (addictionca.com)
  • Traditionally, fentanyl and fentanyl analogs in the illicit market have been mixed into heroin or sold as heroin, often without the knowledge of the consumer, and have primarily impacted areas where white powder heroin is prevalent, including the Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast regions of the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • Scott Harry, age 42, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after a December 20, 2017, jury verdict finding him guilty of possessing 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it after having a previous conviction for a felony drug offense. (justice.gov)
  • Much of Washington's methamphetamine supply originates in Mexico. (drugrehab.com)
  • Crystal methamphetamine is a form of the drug that looks like glass fragments or shiny, bluish-white rocks. (nih.gov)
  • In some cases, people take methamphetamine in a form of binging known as a "run," giving up food and sleep while continuing to take the drug every few hours for up to several days. (nih.gov)
  • Currently, most methamphetamine in the United States is produced by transactional criminal organizations (TCOs) in Mexico. (nih.gov)
  • People who inject methamphetamine are at increased risk of contracting infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B and C. These diseases are transmitted through contact with blood or other bodily fluids that can remain on drug equipment. (nih.gov)
  • Studies indicate that HIV causes more injury to nerve cells and more cognitive problems in people who use methamphetamine than it does in people who have HIV and don't use the drug. (nih.gov)
  • One drug which poses a significant risk to the state is methamphetamine. (drugnet.net)
  • Methamphetamine is not only shipped in to Arizona for local distribution but also sent to other states throughout the country including Nevada. (drugnet.net)
  • In this investigation, journalist Carlos García tells the story of how a member of the MS13 entered the methamphetamine distribution business under the powerful auspices of the Mexican Mafia, only to see his network unravel just as quickly. (insightcrime.org)
  • During the first three months of 2023, Mexican authorities have seized 22 clandestine labs, 7,820 kilograms of methamphetamines and 45,200 liters of chemical precursors, among others. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Attorneys for Jedidiah Murphy, a condemned Texas inmate have asked a federal judge to stop his execution, alleging the drugs he is to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (krqe.com)
  • Pound-for-pound, marijuana accounted for 95 percent of the drugs seized by Border Patrol in 2011. (go.com)
  • Instead, organizations like NORML cheer when the safest drug (marijuana) is still restricted more than alcohol. (norml.org)
  • In my opinion, if a state does not allow an individual to grow a plant for personal use the prohibition in that state continues and marijuana is still not legal. (norml.org)
  • The unprecedented plan to put the government at the center of a legal marijuana industry has already made it halfway through congress, giving President Jose Mujica a long-sought victory in his effort to explore alternatives to the global war on drugs. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • It provides a model for legally regulating marijuana that other countries, and U.S. states, will want to consider - and a precedent that will embolden others to follow in their footsteps. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Presidents Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala also have called for reforms, and a recent report by a commission of the Organization of American States encouraged new approaches, including legalization of marijuana. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • At the heart of the Uruguayan marijuana regulation bill is a focus on improving public health and public safety,' said Hannah Hetzer, a Drug Policy Alliance staffer who moved to Montevideo to help shepherd the proposal. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Legislators in the governing coalition said putting the government at the center of a legal marijuana industry is worth trying because the global war on drugs had been a costly and bloody failure, and displacing illegal dealers through licensed pot sales could save money and lives. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Critics warned that marijuana is a gateway drug and said fostering the bad habits of addicts is playing with fire. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The Netherlands decriminalised soft drugs in the 1970s, making it legal to buy up to 5g of marijuana from licensed vendors. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • She was a legislator in Sinaloa who was tasked with money laundering and finding new marijuana suppliers in Mexico. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • Mexican organizations usually transport Mexico-produced marijuana in multi-100-pound quantities via tractor-trailers. (palmpartners.com)
  • Mexico's drug wars killed more than 2,500 people in 2007. (latimes.com)
  • You are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built even one meter of wall," Mexico's President Obrador told President Biden at the North American Leaders' Summit in Mexico City last January. (frontpagemag.com)
  • According to data reported by the World Bank on the number of victims of intentional homicide per 100,000 population in 2020, Mexico's number was four times higher than that of the United States. (frontpagemag.com)
  • It is a very regrettable fact that a former defense secretary is detained, accused of drug trafficking,' Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, said during his daily press briefing on Friday. (wral.com)
  • Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on August 11, 2021. (punchng.com)
  • Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday thanked a veteran drug lord jailed for the murder of a US undercover agent, after the incarcerated man praised the leftist leader's security strategy. (punchng.com)
  • Today there's a left splinter from the PRD, Morena, which has eclipsed the PRD in many ways, and is led by, at least on the national level and in Mexico state, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), who used to be a PRD leader. (readersupportednews.org)
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 31: Shaun Willis, with the Brooklyn Community Recovery Center, demonstrates how to use Narcan to revive a person in the case of a drug overdose on August 31, 2022 in New York City. (alternet.org)
  • The Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022 report for Mexico noted that President Obrador's policies have undermined democracy in his country. (frontpagemag.com)
  • La información en esta página debería ser considerada como ejemplos de información de antecedentes para la temporada de influenza 2021-2022 para la práctica médica respecto del uso de medicamentos antivirales contra la influenza. (cdc.gov)
  • In his former role, Jason was responsible for directing efforts to designate countries, organizations, and individuals as terrorists, also known as State Sponsors of Terrorism, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. (middlebury.edu)
  • The Evergreen State has a higher rate of drug-induced deaths than the United States as a whole. (drugrehab.com)
  • Washington saw a 10.5 percent increase in drug overdose deaths from 2014 to 2015. (drugrehab.com)
  • Around two-thirds of the drug deaths recorded in both years involved synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl. (naturalnews.com)
  • Since 2017, the number of deaths by fentanyl in the United States has been rising exponentially, becoming today the leading cause of deaths by overdose. (reviewjournal.com)
  • In the United States, synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are now the most common drugs involved in drug overdose deaths, responsible for 59% of all opioid-related decedents. (addictionca.com)
  • By the end of 2009, 70,000 cases were tising, was open to all persons in communities served by confi rmed and 944 deaths were recorded in Mexico ( 2 ), and our mobile and fi xed-site clinics. (cdc.gov)
  • and (3) encouraged states to expand access to naloxone and training for administering naloxone to reduce opioid overdose deaths. (cdc.gov)
  • To mark International Overdose Awareness Day, the Brooklyn Community Recovery Center handed out packs of Narcan nasal spray before holding a brief vigil for lives lost due to drug overdoses. (alternet.org)
  • Drug overdoses kill more people annually than suicides, homicides, car accidents and guns. (addictionca.com)
  • From 2008-2018, he served as the Director of the Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State. (middlebury.edu)
  • Colorado boasts a comfortable average annual income level--$68,811 as of 2018-- and given its relative wealth, it would be tempting to think that it had been spared the scourge of drug addiction that has ravaged poorer states, but this isn't the case. (addictionca.com)
  • In 2018, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) San Diego Quarantine Station, was notified about an elderly patient with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), who needed to complete treatment, but had left the United States to visit family in Tijuana, Mexico, just on the other side of the US land border. (cdc.gov)
  • The overall death toll associated with drug gangs in Mexico has rise to more than 720 so far this year, well above the count this time last year,' reads the report, published at the end of March. (latimes.com)
  • The Mexican Mafia has influence over every Hispanic street gang in Southern California, including the notoriously brutal MS-13 and 18th Street Gang , since in the prison system inmates are recruited into gangs based on race regardless of street gang affiliation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gangs have a long history in the United States , dating back to the 1800s. (encyclopedia.com)
  • April 2001, http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/181868-1.pdf ), during the 1970s about 1% of U.S. cities and about 40% of the states reported having problems with youth gangs. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In the United States, one of the most powerful gangs sits behind bars in several California prisons. (insightcrime.org)
  • The Biden administration has also been slow to impose sanctions on the main criminals and organizations responsible for the trade. (naturalnews.com)
  • @SenWarren , why are you supporting criminals moving weapons, drugs, and victims across our nation's borders? (politifact.com)
  • By the late twentieth century, law enforcement officials had come to regard gang members in general as serious criminals who engaged in the illegal trafficking of drugs or weapons and used intimidation tactics and violence to pursue their goals. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Not the case in Texas, where you can create citizen militias out of a couple of city blocks, and you don't even need police protection from drug criminals, since even granny knows how to use a rifle. (allempires.com)
  • Trump has suggested that the Mexican government has outsmarted the US by purposefully sending criminals across the border. (readersupportednews.org)
  • You can look right into Mexico and the heart of Ciudad Juarez across the river. (kcur.org)
  • As this Reuters report details, Ciudad Juarez, which has drawn attention because of a rash of murders of women, has seen 200 people slain in drug-related violence so far this year -- 10 times as many as a year ago. (latimes.com)
  • People crossing the Paso del Norte bridge linking Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, on January 28, 2011. (truthout.org)
  • researchers has been conducting prospective studies of Robert T. Schooley, Xing-quan Zhang, populations at high risk for infectious diseases in the most and Steffanie A. Strathdee vulnerable communities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, since 2004 ( 10 , 11 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Violent criminal activity fueled by a war between criminal organizations struggling for control of the lucrative narcotics trade continues along the U.S.-Mexico border. (latimes.com)
  • Ponce-Rocha used various methods including commercial shipments, drivers and couriers to move narcotics around the world and, in particular, to import narcotics into the United States," David Behar, a Special Agent with the DEA, told a judge last month. (dailydot.com)
  • 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)
  • While terrorists pose an enduring threat to the Homeland, drugs kill and harm far more people in the United States annually,' DHS states, stressing in its report that the flow of illicit substances is 'supporting violent criminal enterprises, money laundering, and corruption that undermines the rule of law. (alternet.org)
  • Quintero-Sanclemente directed the organization, deployed its enforcement operatives, and was said to be the most violent member of the organization. (state.gov)
  • [2] Luis Flores initially recruited violent members to the gang in an attempt to create a highly feared organization which could control the black market activities of the Deuel prison facilities. (wikipedia.org)
  • First, the overall violent crime rate had been falling in Mexico before this new initiative. (lab.org.uk)
  • It's also true of the violent drug war that has enveloped Mexico in recent years, which the US government has funded and, by driving drug trafficking routes away from the Caribbean and into Mexico, played a major role in creating. (readersupportednews.org)
  • But arrests were made in more than 40,000 drug seizures over that time period, and a U.S. citizen was involved 80 percent of the time. (go.com)
  • If U.S. citizens account for the majority of drug arrests by Border Patrol, the architects of an immigration bill may want to consider a border security strategy that takes that into account, perhaps by investing more in monitoring legal ports of entry. (go.com)
  • The drug arrests largely involve pot. (go.com)
  • Over five million illegal aliens have crossed the U.S. southern border with Mexico since Joe Biden assumed the presidency on January 20, 2021 and threw out President Trump's successful policies that had secured the border. (thegatewaypundit.com)
  • The study, presented by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) at the June-July 2021 session of UN Human Rights Council (HRC), documents high rates of arbitrary detention worldwide for those suspected of drug-related activity. (wola.org)
  • In 2020 and 2021 there was an increase in the rate of calls to New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center (NMPDIC) regarding workplace exposure to disinfectants. (cdc.gov)
  • Attacks are aimed primarily at members of drug-trafficking organizations, Mexican police forces, criminal justice officials, and journalists. (latimes.com)
  • The monthlong investigation culminated late Tuesday, following an undercover operation targeting members of the La Familia Michoacana trafficking organization in Southern California, California Department of Justice spokeswoman Michelle Gregory said. (alipac.us)
  • They allegedly imported meth from Mexico and distributed it to drug dealers in California and other states. (alipac.us)
  • Law enforcement officials report that the Mexican Mafia is the deadliest and most powerful gang within the California prison system . (wikipedia.org)
  • The Mexican Mafia was formed in 1957 by thirteen Hispanic street gang members from different Los Angeles neighborhoods who were incarcerated at the Deuel Vocational Institution , a California Youth Authority facility, which is now an adult state prison in Tracy, California . (wikipedia.org)
  • According to a US government investigation against Little One and others, the official ceremony happened in the city of Fresno, California, during a meeting with the Mexican Mafia, in which Little One got the tripartite endorsement to become a full blood brother. (insightcrime.org)
  • A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent waits at the top of a hill overlooking Imperial Beach, California, during his patrol along the international border between Mexico and the United States, March 26, 2013. (readersupportednews.org)
  • Partnership in action: CDC CureTB, San Diego County Tuberculosis Control, and US Customs and Border Protection helped a patient with drug-resistant TB through the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry, which connects San Diego, California, with Tijuana, Mexico, to complete care at his residence in California. (cdc.gov)
  • Tijuana, Mexico Mexican public health offi cials, nongovernment organiza- tions, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). (cdc.gov)
  • Harry is being held in the United States Marshal's custody until he can be transported to a federal prison. (justice.gov)
  • The study design and sample size fol- from prescription status to be sold over-the- lowed World Health Organization (WHO) counter (OTC) without a prescription. (who.int)
  • c World Health Organization Representative Office, Hanoi, Viet Nam. (who.int)
  • On 11 June 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared this event the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century. (who.int)
  • He controlled almost all of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico-United States border in 1970s and the 80s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Byron Lima was larger than the prison system that he once controlled, and his murder certainly seems like it was much bigger than just a dispute over drug trafficking, as has been peddled by some authorities in the days following his spectacular assassination. (insightcrime.org)
  • GIBSON: The Barrio Azteca are integrated with the drug trafficking organizations from across the border. (kcur.org)
  • Its targets include command structure, smuggling and distribution for a drug-trafficking organization that moved drugs from Mexico through Texas. (alipac.us)
  • Ramon Quintero-Sanclemente was the leader of the Quintero-Sanclemente drug trafficking organization. (state.gov)
  • Learn more about the proliferation of dangerous drugs in the United States at Trafficking.news . (naturalnews.com)
  • The government of Mexico has undertaken relevant actions to combat fentanyl trafficking. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Our efforts to avoid illicit fentanyl trafficking in Mexico have sadly taken the lives of 75 Mexican soldiers in the past four years. (reviewjournal.com)
  • The Mexican government acknowledges this and is working firmly and strongly to reduce fentanyl trafficking to this country. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Ramirez-Abadia has been involved in drug trafficking activities since at least 1986. (state.gov)
  • Ramirez-Abadia continued his drug trafficking activities while serving time in Colombian jails. (state.gov)
  • Arizona is a major drug trafficking state, with lots of drugs shipped into the state for the purposes of being sold. (drugnet.net)
  • Many of the drugs sold in Arizona are done so by Mexican drug trafficking organizations. (drugnet.net)
  • Instead of closing their eyes to the problem of drug abuse and drug trafficking, Uruguay is taking an important step towards responsible regulation of an existing reality. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • This procedure allowed for the laundering of significant amounts of money originating from illegal activities, including drug trafficking. (gc.ca)
  • On Tuesday, the jury in the federal court of Brooklyn found Joaquin " El Chapo " Guzmán guilty of all 10 counts of the drug trafficking offenses that had been brought against him. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • 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)
  • Automobile, trucking and airline trafficking are the primary means of drug importation, with busing systems as a secondary means. (palmpartners.com)
  • The weight of the law falls on the most vulnerable individuals, overcrowding the prisons, but allowing drug trafficking to flourish. (talkleft.com)
  • According to the report, these laws have overcrowded the prisons - with a high human cost - but have not curbed the production, trafficking, or use of drugs. (talkleft.com)
  • Imprisoning minor offenders to restrict drug trafficking is useless, for the next day the bosses at the top replace them. (talkleft.com)
  • To reestablish proportionality in sentencing, it is important that the authorities introduce clearer guidelines to identify the different levels of trafficking and the different types of drugs, and to keep users from ending up in prison," concludes Metaal. (talkleft.com)
  • But Obrador, the left-wing progressive leader of his narco-state, regularly insults the United States, except when he is angling for amnesty to be granted to the millions of illegal immigrants already living in the U.S. (frontpagemag.com)
  • President Obrador is a dissembler who sees no evil, hears no evil, and speaks no evil when praising his narco-state. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Félix Gallardo instructed his lawyer to convene the nation's top drug narcos in 1989 at a house in the resort of Acapulco where he designated the plazas (turfs) or territories. (wikipedia.org)
  • Are you looking for Arizona Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers ? (drugnet.net)
  • 2009 Surveillance perceptions of the pandemic and risk factors associated with acquiring the disease in marginalized populations in in Marginalized Tijuana, Mexico. (cdc.gov)
  • From May 1 through Novem- sons in Tijuana, Mexico. (cdc.gov)
  • In that regard, it is paramount to note that criminal enterprises that traffic fentanyl are not only a Mexican issue but also a shared one. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Once the drugs reach Arizona , they are sold by street games and other criminal groups. (drugnet.net)
  • This article is about the U.S. criminal organization. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mafia Mexicana ), also known as La eMe (Spanish for "the M"), is a Mexican American criminal organization in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • [1] [3] Despite its name, the Mexican Mafia did not originate in Mexico, and is entirely a U.S. criminal prison organization . (wikipedia.org)
  • This major investigation targeted a criminal organization in Montréal and Toronto. (gc.ca)
  • The criminal organizations could thus import drugs through this network. (gc.ca)
  • This operation conducted by the RCMP and its partners disrupted the activities of criminal organizations that import drugs. (gc.ca)
  • During his time as governor, Moreira worked as a surrogate of Los Zetas by giving free reign to the criminal organization in exchange for cash bribes , as Breitbart Texas previously reported. (breitbart.com)
  • Murphy's lawyers also alleged the criminal justice department is using expired execution drugs, a claim made by seven other death row inmates in a December lawsuit. (krqe.com)
  • This migration from the land to the cities, to the maquiladoras on the border, and to the US itself has helped produce a flexible labour pool for criminal organizations to employ, a massively cheap labour force. (lab.org.uk)
  • The criminal organizations have become much more powerful. (lab.org.uk)
  • The Working Group's report documents how, while states are required to uphold human rights obligations under international law-such as guaranteeing adequate legal protections, and due process for those who enter the criminal justice system-the reliance on harsh drug policies results in sustained violations of these standards. (wola.org)
  • Since the 1970s, research on organized crime leadership (and, by extension, drug lords) has evolved. (wikipedia.org)
  • Recent killings by the narcos have clearly been an effort to dissuade the public from cooperating with state officials. (latimes.com)
  • Government officials state that there are currently 400-500 official members of the Mexican Mafia [ citation needed ] with thousands of hitmen and associates within prison and an estimate of more than 50,000 foot soldiers who also carry out its illegal activities on the streets in the hopes of becoming full members. (wikipedia.org)
  • That led them to Dwain Castle, who officials said helped Rodriguez store the drugs and divide them to supply lower-level dealers. (wave3.com)
  • Despite constant claims by Mexican officials about improving security conditions, Mexico continues to see an ongoing escalation of violence. (breitbart.com)
  • Data on the occupation and industry of COVID-19 cases was made available to the Governor via an interactive dashboard and was used for briefings of state officials before public press conferences. (cdc.gov)
  • Much like the rest of the United States, the scourge of opioid addiction has blown through Colorado like an unstoppable blizzard, laying waste to whole communities, and decimating families. (addictionca.com)
  • The root of the opioid problem stems from doctors over-prescribing these highly addictive drugs when, in many cases, Tylenol, Excedrin or Advil will do. (addictionca.com)
  • States should be vigilant about the possibility of highly toxic fentanyl-related compounds becoming available in the illicit drug market, as well as other highly toxic synthetic opioid derivatives, such as U47700 [2,12]. (cdc.gov)
  • The NVC not only produces its own drugs, but also purchases drugs from reliable sources in the Bandas Criminales (BACRIM) or Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). (state.gov)
  • The funds were then returned to drug exporting countries, such as Colombia and Mexico. (gc.ca)
  • The unprecedented one-year comparative study of the drug laws and prison systems in eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. (talkleft.com)
  • One example is Colombia, where the study concluded that 98 percent of the persons imprisoned for drug offenses from 2007 to 2009 were low-level offenders, or at least that it was not possible to prove otherwise. (talkleft.com)
  • McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- Thirteen people have made their initial appearances in federal court in McAllen, among 52 named in an indictment alleging a wide-ranging drug conspiracy. (alipac.us)
  • A new report says mostly Americans smuggle drugs from Mexico. (go.com)
  • The department alleged that Alfonso-Fernandez was trying to smuggle the drugs from Sonora, Mexico to Phoenix. (naturalnews.com)
  • On 18 December 2014, federal authorities approved his request to transfer to a medium-security prison in Guadalajara (State of Jalisco), due to his declining health. (wikipedia.org)
  • URIBE: This happened when Mexican drug smugglers joined up with the Barrio Aztecas in prison. (kcur.org)
  • Felix Gallardo, who maintained his innocence, appeared in a wheelchair in a high-security prison in western Mexico, saying he was blind in one eye and deaf in one ear. (punchng.com)
  • Breitbart Texas' investigation into the massacre revealed that some of the victims were incinerated in 55-gallon drums inside the state run prison in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. (breitbart.com)
  • Tramposo is a Mexican who belongs to the MS13's Hollywood Locos clique and comes from a Mexican family originally from Michoacán, and he had presented Little One to the members of the eMe in prison. (insightcrime.org)
  • This group controlled from within prison cells and that few dare name is called the Mexican Mafia, and the most common way of referring to it is using the Spanish pronunciation of the thirteenth letter of the alphabet, "la eMe. (insightcrime.org)
  • In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Austin, Murphy's attorneys allege that during an Aug. 25 fire that caused "catastrophic damage" to the administration building of a prison unit in Huntsville, the execution drugs the state uses were exposed to excessively high temperatures, smoke and water. (krqe.com)
  • reveals that drug laws have contributed to the prison crises these countries are experiencing. (talkleft.com)
  • But for the persons locked up, prison can destroy their lives," according to Pien Metaal, coordinator of TNI 's drug law reform project. (talkleft.com)
  • The fear they may have of ending up in prison or getting involved in the drug business is trumped by their need to provide for their families," says Coletta Youngers of WOLA. (talkleft.com)
  • For example in Ecuador a "mule," or low level transporter of drugs, may receive a longer prison sentence than a murderer. (talkleft.com)
  • The paper advocated for reducing overreliance on incarceration and for reducing prison populations-neither of which can be achieved without addressing the use of arbitrary detention in the context of drug control. (wola.org)
  • After his capture in 1989 for the alleged murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena, Félix and allegedly the Mexican Government decided to divide up the trade he controlled as it would be more efficient and less likely to be brought down by law enforcement. (wikipedia.org)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (justice.gov)
  • To achieve its theater-strategic goals and counter Russian aggression despite ongoing fiscal constraints, the United States Government (USG) must consciously increase its U.S. interagency and whole-of-government efforts specifically by augmenting U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) and Department of State (DoS) collaboration in the European Command (EUCOM) area of responsibility. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • In its effort to combat violence, the government of Mexico has deployed military troops in various parts of the country. (latimes.com)
  • Note Obrador's sweet-talk about the United States when he wanted the U.S. government to do him the big favor of granting amnesty to "millions of Mexicans" living illegally in this country. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Once in power, Los Zetas carried out a series of massacres in that state where in one case alone 300 victims, including women and children were kidnapped, murdered and incinerated in a network of ovens at government facilities. (breitbart.com)
  • If anything, the three-month-long trial left us with the disquieting conclusion that if this man, who was born into dire poverty and equipped with only a third-grade education, could overcome the billions of dollars the government has pumped into the drug war over the last 40 years, then anyone with a basic level of cunning and ruthlessness could. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • For example, subsidies were lifted on production of Mexican corn, and then Mexico was flooded with imported corn from the US, where government subsidies were still in place. (lab.org.uk)
  • LAB: Would you say then that the recent 'war on drugs' of the Calderón government has been a failure? (lab.org.uk)
  • Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has found himself consumed by crises in recent years, from the disappearance of student protesters and persistent drug war violence throughout the country to corruption scandals and, most recently, revelations that the government appears to be hacking into activists' phones to surveil them. (readersupportednews.org)
  • SBHMB Epidemiologist, Dr. Sonia Contreras, says BHM is "a unique opportunity for government and community-based health organizations to get together to renew and expand their partnerships and commitments to serve Mexican and other Latin American migrant communities that are disproportionately affected by adverse health outcomes and face barriers to accessing care. (cdc.gov)
  • DOHMH distributed information about the medications to health-care providers, product manufacturers, and government agencies in the United States and abroad, via postal and electronic mail. (cdc.gov)
  • Meanwhile, DHS warns that 'during the next year, we assess that the threat of violence from individuals radicalized in the United States will remain high, but largely unchanged, marked by lone offenders or small group attacks that occur with little warning. (alternet.org)
  • The U.S. State Department in Mexico issued a travel alert yesterday, prompted by drug violence in the north of Mexico. (latimes.com)
  • Calderon's military campaign against the drug lords was launched 15 months ago, and the violence on the border has increased, especially in recent months. (latimes.com)
  • Tijuana's recent wave of violence appears to have driven another nail into the coffin of a tourism industry already hobbled by its reputation for tacky tourist traps and rowdy bars and by long waits at the U.S.- Mexico border crossing. (latimes.com)
  • The reality is that fentanyl and drug violence hurt us all. (reviewjournal.com)
  • The violence surrounding the Mexico-Arizona drug trade is a significant threat to Arizona. (drugnet.net)
  • 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)
  • Here in the US we are getting more and more news about the drug-related violence in Mexico. (allempires.com)
  • The reason why the violence is much more concentrated in northern Mexico as opposed to the southern US is precisely because most people in the southern US own guns, while Mexicans throughout their country are victims of the tightest gun regulations in the hemisphere. (allempires.com)
  • Thats why, despite complete freedom of movement due to an ungaurded border, and freedom to own guns in the US, the drug violence is more than 10-fold inside Mexico than in the US. (allempires.com)
  • The astronomical levels of drug violence and corruption in Mexico can be directly attributed to the policies of the United States. (readersupportednews.org)
  • The shift in attitudes away from illicit drug use and drug users is an extraordinary success story. (cia.gov)
  • Worse, U.S. efforts to make moving drugs across the border more difficult might be having the opposite effect: consolidating the illicit drug business into fewer and fewer hands and making the surviving heavyweights more difficult to defeat. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Or were they made scapegoats to satisfy an international community -- and especially nongovernmental and human rights organizations -- that was insisting someone had to pay for atrocities committed during the war? (insightcrime.org)
  • Governments, academic institutions, and nongovernmental organizations contributed to this interdisciplinary research project, which resulted in the sharing of information and models of good practice among the participating countries and a series of specific policy recommendations. (who.int)
  • Young people socialize, use drugs and alcohol, and have more free time than adults, so they run a higher risk of drug addiction than older people. (drugrehab.com)
  • If taxation were according to health risk, alcohol and many prescription drugs should be taxed highly. (norml.org)
  • Arizona Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities. (drugnet.net)
  • But sadly it's becoming known for something more sinister-a growing alcohol and drug addiction crisis. (addictionca.com)
  • And, in a 2014 study, Colorado had 1,035 or more individuals (per 100,000) admitted to treatment for alcohol abuse as the primary drug of choice. (addictionca.com)
  • Despite being well-off in terms of resources, Colorado drug and alcohol abuse continues to rise at an alarming rate. (addictionca.com)
  • Drug and alcohol abuse is a national problem, and no state in the US has been spared. (addictionca.com)
  • Poorer people are statistically more likely to struggle with drug or alcohol abuse, but this doesn't necessarily mean that people that are more well-off economically are less likely to become addicted. (addictionca.com)
  • Furthermore, the poor- est and most underserved border populations, composed of the homeless, commercial sex workers, and those with alcohol and drug abuse problems, have disproportionately high levels of diseases such as HIV ( 6 ) and tuberculo- sis ( 7 ), illnesses suspected of increasing vulnerability to acquiring and dying of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 ( 8 , 9 ). (cdc.gov)
  • As for legal drugs (Tobacco father) and includes dimensions of support, and alcohol) consumption before the age of 18 rejection, control and favoritism (3-4). (bvsalud.org)
  • At the same meeting President Obrador lobbied President Biden to insist that Congress "regularize migration situations" for "millions of Mexicans" already in the United States. (frontpagemag.com)
  • His racist absurdities, however, draw from a long history of American ignorance about and bigotries toward Mexico and Mexicans, who become blank canvasses upon which all manner of nightmares, insecurities, and dreads about jobs, drugs, security, and cultural identity are painted. (readersupportednews.org)
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees Border Patrol, told CIR that the agency issues news releases to draw attention to 'noteworthy seizures,' which might involve suspects hiding drugs in an unusual way or carrying a large load. (go.com)
  • A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers over the weekend at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference on January 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. Officers caught a 26-year old Mexican driver with more than 650 pounds of meth and fentanyl worth $4.6 million. (reviewjournal.com)
  • DrugRehab.com provides information regarding illicit and prescription drug addiction, the various populations at risk for the disease, current statistics and trends, and psychological disorders that often accompany addiction. (drugrehab.com)
  • Thirdly, it has not reduced addiction rates within Mexico itself. (lab.org.uk)
  • During 1986-1997, the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases among foreign-born persons in the United States increased by 56%, from 4,925 cases (22% of the national total) to 7,702 cases (39% of the national total). (cdc.gov)
  • The Working Group on Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons considered a) epidemiologic profiles of TB cases among foreign-born persons, b) case finding, screening, and preventive therapy for the foreign born, c) TB diagnosis and management for the foreign born, d) opportunities for collaborations with community-based organizations (CBOs) to address TB among the foreign born, and e) TB-related training needs. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1986, CDC began collecting information on place of birth for those persons residing in the United States who have been reported to be infected with tuberculosis (TB). (cdc.gov)
  • This woman was admitted to isolation and started empirically on a 4-drug regimen in the ED. Tuberculosis was confirmed on sputum testing. (medscape.com)
  • The vast majority of drug busts by Border Patrol in recent years involved a U.S. citizen, bucking a public perception that couriers bringing drugs into the country are from south of the border, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). (go.com)
  • But the public message that the Border Patrol has trumpeted for much of the last decade, mainly through press releases about its seizures, has emphasized Mexican drug couriers, or mules, as those largely responsible for transporting drugs. (go.com)
  • In about half of those cases, Border Patrol agents didn't catch anyone and the drugs were abandoned, according to the report, so we don't know the identity of those smugglers. (go.com)
  • The center looked at an extensive set of records -- 81,261 drug seizures between 2005 and 2011 -- but the numbers don't tell the whole story. (go.com)
  • In light of this, Mexico will significantly increase its efforts in fentanyl and chemical precursor seizures and the United States will increase its efforts in weapon seizures and increase supervision of federal firearms licensees. (reviewjournal.com)
  • He connected closer to Colombian organized crime and established himself deeper in the United States. (dailydot.com)
  • There's no argument that Mexico-based crime organizations dominate drug smuggling into the United States. (go.com)
  • Plus if one sees where the drug war in Mexico is concentrated he will find that it is in the border states of Chihuahua and Sonora. (allempires.com)
  • Both European Union (EU) and U.S. leadership recognize Russia as the greatest security threat confronting Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Illegal drugs 'produced in Mexico and sold in the United States' are the top national security threat facing the American people, according to a Department of Homeland Security assessment released on Thursday. (alternet.org)
  • Fentanyl is the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered," warned DEA Administrator Anne Milgram in a statement. (naturalnews.com)
  • Xanax and Valium are drugs of choice, but OxyContin continues to be a threat. (palmpartners.com)
  • Such lords are often difficult to bring to justice, as they are normally not directly in possession of something illegal but are insulated from the actual trade in drugs by several layers of staff. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because knowledge and attitudes are the bedrock of behavior, we can be confident that the next generation will reject illegal drugs in record numbers. (cia.gov)
  • They add, 'DHS said it has invested in stopping these dangerous and illegal drugs from entering the country - seizing more fentanyl, and arresting more people for fentanyl-related crimes in the last two years than in the previous five years combined, DHS said in a statement to ABC News. (alternet.org)
  • Most of the illegal fentanyl found in the U.S. is made in Mexico and smuggled across the border to willing buyers all over the country. (naturalnews.com)
  • However, although it is technically illegal there, the drug is widely available as police can't prosecute people for possession of small amounts. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • In addition the Feds here in the US are beginning to crack down on illegal weapons sales that go into Mexico. (allempires.com)
  • International human rights standards prohibit arbitrary detention-but as highlighted by the Working Group's report, states resort frequently to this illegal practice as part of their ongoing enforcement of harsh anti-drug policies. (wola.org)
  • Survey (1) reported that illegal drug consumption parents and children. (bvsalud.org)
  • From 2014 to 2015 the number of drug submissions testing positive for acetyl fentanyl increased substantially, rising from 463 in 2014 to 1,870 in 2015[9,10,11], and in 2016, NFLIS reported increasing drug submissions testing positive for furanyl fentanyl (244 drug submissions from January to July 2016) [9]. (cdc.gov)
  • from October 2014 to September 2015, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies seized a total of 167.7 kilograms of fentanyl, and through June, 2016, they seized 363.8 kilograms of fentanyl [9]. (cdc.gov)
  • While the current U.S. administration, more than its predecessor, recognizes the need to reduce the demand for drugs at home, much of its efforts are still focused on the United States' southern neighbor: helping Mexico strengthen its military capacity and promote the rule of law. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • BIDS works closely with U.S. states along the border to strengthen binational detection, reporting, and prevention of infectious diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • To strengthen Viet Nam's preparedness, surveillance and response capacities, we conducted a retrospective study of the epidemiological and clinical features of patients who died from A(H1N1) pdm09 to determine the frequency of underlying medical conditions and the use of antiviral drugs by health staff. (who.int)
  • This uprising and its as the inherent infectious diseases, as refugees, further weakening state aftermath shaped the way humani- cancer and other noncommunica- capacity to maintain health systems. (who.int)
  • Washington's first state-licensed retail cannabis operators opened for business this morning. (norml.org)
  • Part of the Small Wars Journal (SWJ) anthology series, Hammer of the Caliphate is a continuation of previous works on the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and their affiliate groups. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • This course will provide an in-depth overview into the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as the Islamic State, the Arabic acronym Daesh, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in addition to other aliases). (middlebury.edu)
  • The rapid rise of the Islamic State has taken counterterrorism policymakers and foreign policy practitioners by surprise. (middlebury.edu)
  • [8] Though larger budgets seem to demonstrate a renewed resolve towards collective defense, inflation and fluctuating exchange rates did not allow the stated increases to produce actual budget growth by 2020. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • During the weeks that followed he proceeded to insult the United States and threaten to interfere in this country's elections. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The country's many licensed 'coffee shops' are a huge tourist attraction in Holland with an estimated one million holidaymakers a year, including Britons, heading to Amsterdam to legally buy and smoke drugs. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Many drug users end up in jail - even when their country's law does not provide for imprisonment of users - as they are taken for dealers," says Metaal of TNI. (talkleft.com)
  • The drug laws impose penalties disproportionate to many of the drug offenses committed, do not give sufficient consideration to the use of alternative sanctions, and promote the excessive use of preventive detention. (talkleft.com)
  • Most of those imprisoned for drug offenses are men, yet the percentage of women prisoners who are behind bars for drug offenses is greater than the percentage of male prisoners locked up for the same reason. (talkleft.com)
  • The study concludes, the persons charged with and convicted of drug offenses are often denied access to penalties that constitute alternatives to imprisonment. (talkleft.com)
  • SBHMB is committed to U.S.-Mexico border and binational health and health equity. (cdc.gov)
  • SBHMB also partners with other public health organizations to address binational and migrant populations' health concerns. (cdc.gov)
  • This multidisciplinary group that includes federal, state, and regional public health professionals, meets monthly to discuss binational public health matters. (cdc.gov)
  • When pandemic (H1N1) 2009 fi rst emerged there was temperatures recorded and completed brief surveys docu- concern that Mexico-US border cities, which have served menting demographics, infl uenza risk factors, and clinical as corridors for binational transmission of infectious dis- symptoms. (cdc.gov)
  • The Policy Board centralizes oversight for all Federal drug control programs targeted at reducing the demand for, and supply of, illicit drugs. (cia.gov)
  • This report describes Lead Agency Committee structure and goals as well as Federal drug control accomplishments for fiscal year 1987. (cia.gov)
  • It really was a leviathan state, with centralized control over political life in Mexico during that whole period. (readersupportednews.org)
  • In his groundbreaking 2001 study of border enforcement, "Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide," border scholar Peter Andreas rightly observed that border policing has "some of the features of a ritualized spectator sport," noting that the game metaphor reflects the "performance and audience-driven nature" of the politics of border control. (truthout.org)
  • On May 16-17, 1997, CDC convened a working group of state and city TB-control program staff, as well as representatives from CDC's Division of TB Elimination and Division of Quarantine, to outline problems and propose solutions for addressing TB among foreign-born persons. (cdc.gov)
  • The Working Group's deliberations and the resulting recommendations for action by federal agencies, state and local TB-control programs, CBOs, and private health-care providers form the basis of this report. (cdc.gov)
  • Voters in both states in 2012 approved ballot measures regulating the commercial production, retail sale, and adult use of cannabis. (norml.org)
  • Rodriguez did agree to be questioned, and admitted he was the man bringing in kilograms of drugs, according to federal documents. (wave3.com)