Drug Trafficking / Narcotics

By Alexandre Loureiro RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Hundreds of heavily-armed police occupied the Jacarezinho neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro on...

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador will ask its citizens to vote in a 2023 consultation to reform its...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican cartel leader who became one of the most wanted criminals in Mexico due to...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Croatian police have seized the largest heroin shipment detected in the country, hidden in an 80 tonne...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican judge has issued seven arrest warrants related to a decade-old cross border arms trafficking...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Two Haitian journalists were killed Thursday on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince after suspected gang members opened fire on...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday he will never apologise for the deaths of suspected drug...

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Twenty-three people have been reported killed so far in Colombia's Arauca province amid fighting between illegal armed groups,...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Police in northern Niger have seized more than 200 kg of cocaine worth around $8.7 million that...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese authorities on Wednesday intercepted nine million pills of the recreational drug captagon inside a shipment of...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia’s police captured five people during raids in the Andean country’s second city Medellin and surrounding areas...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama made record drugs seizures in 2021, confiscating some 126 tonnes of contraband, chiefly cocaine, the...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai police said on Thursday that they have uncovered 58 million dirhams (around $15.8 million) worth of...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities have seized crystal methamphetamine with a street value of almost $30 million stuffed inside boxing...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Friday they had arrested an internationally wanted drug trafficker suspected of using the...

By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) - The EU drug regulator will not decide whether to approve Merck & Co's COVID-19...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden signed two new executive orders intended to fight drug trafficking and...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for a former Mexican security chief facing U.S. drug trafficking charges...

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's president, Guillermo Lasso, has used emergency powers to fight a crime wave he...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Three people were killed early on Tuesday morning in two explosions at the airport in the Colombian...